Abstract
Abstract While overall, sex differences in sensitivity to emotion have rarely been found, subjects' sex may be a significant interactional variable. Nine hypotheses were tested, examining sex differences in (a) accuracy of judgment of emotion, (b) attention paid to emotional cues and (c) type of error made when incorrectly judging emotions, when these variables are related to (d) the emotions being expressed and (e) the sex of the expressor. Little evidence of sex differences was found from testing 49 males and 51 females. Males were found to make more evaluative errors when judging positive and negative emotions expressed by women. Continued research emphasis on sex differences in the perception of emotion is questioned.
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