Does sex make a difference? Gender, age, and stimulus realism in perception and evaluation of XXXX .

@entity1 @entity146
Judged @entity146 and its justifiability were examined with caricature cartoons and films of @entity1 doing comparable things. Effects of viewer gender, interactant gender, and facial expression were examined. Facial expression strongly affected both types of judgment, viewer gender had no influence, and interactant gender contributed slightly. Real-cartoon differences were significant, but accounted for little variance. Major response patterns were similar for films of @entity1 and cartoons. In two developmental studies, only facial expression influenced judgments of friendliness-hostility in cartoons, but condemnation of @entity146 decreased as viewer age increased. Results with films of real @entity1 followed those for cartoons. Facial expression influenced judged @entity146 , but only viewer age affected judged justifiability. Cross-experiment comparisons revealed that facial expression and the facial expression X real-cartoon interaction yielded major differences on both dependent variables. Subject and interactant gender were not significant for major dependent variables. Results of the developmental studies were similar to adults' suggesting that for judgments of simple aggressive acts, sex makes no difference, but facial expression does make a difference.
