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Kerri Miller and MPR News Staff

Listen: What the 'princess effect' means for young women

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Researchers have found that the emphasis and marketing around princesses will encourage girls to behave in stereotypical feminine patterns.

With Disney's recent remakes of Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella, Kerri Miller explored "princess culture" with Salem State University's Rebecca Hains and Peggy Orenstein author of "Girls and Sex" and "Cinderella Ate My Daughter."