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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 14.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Dev. 2007 Nov;16(4):800–818. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00408.x

Table 5.

Mean Ratings of Social Acceptability in Study 3

Age Group Female Character
 Male Character
Female Audience Male Audience Female Audience Male Audience
Four-year-olds 4.52 (1.05) 3.36 (1.73) 3.24 (1.67) 2.72 (1.74)
Five-year-olds 4.08 (1.41) 3.48 (1.78) 3.44 (1.53) 3.04 (1.51)
Eight-year-olds 3.40 (1.41) 2.96 (1.14) 2.00 (.24) 1.56 (.87)

Note: Mean ratings for the social acceptability measure for each of the four gender conditions are shown, with standard deviations in parentheses. Ratings are on a five-point scale, with 1 indicating that the character would be ‘very unhappy’ and 5 showing that the character would be ‘very happy’ if others found out about liking to play with dolls.