A cross‐national analysis of sex differences in prisoner's dilemma games

In a comprehensive cross‐national study involving samples from 12 different countries that were representative for the adult populations in terms of age and sex (N = 2,429), we found that women cooperate significantly less overall than men in fully incentivized one‐shot prisoner's dilemma games...

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Published inBritish journal of social psychology Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 225 - 240
Main Authors Dorrough, Angela R., Glöckner, Andreas
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2019
Subjects
Caregiving
Cooperation
Cross cultural studies
culture
Game theory
Games
gender
gender gap
Gender stereotypes
International comparisons
Sex differences
social dilemmas
gender gap
gender
social dilemmas
culture
sex differences
cooperation
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Summary:In a comprehensive cross‐national study involving samples from 12 different countries that were representative for the adult populations in terms of age and sex (N = 2,429), we found that women cooperate significantly less overall than men in fully incentivized one‐shot prisoner's dilemma games. This gender gap in cooperation can be explained by the fact that women hold lower expectations regarding the cooperativeness of their anonymous interaction partners. These results contradict both the common stereotype that women are more communal, caring, emotionally expressive, and warm than men and substantial empirical evidence showing that women act more prosocially in many contexts.
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ISSN:0144-6665
2044-8309
DOI:10.1111/bjso.12287