Guilt Aversion: Eve versus Adam

Giovanni Di Bartolomeo (), Martin Dufwenberg, Stefano Papa and Laura Razzolini ()

No 220, Working Papers in Public Economics from Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Roma

Abstract: Our study contributes to a large literature in experimental economics that explores gender differences in how people are motivated. We focus on guilt aversion (GA), a surprisingly rather unexplored issue. Our experiment supports the idea that men are more GA than women. Our results also support different rationales to explain observed similar behaviors, like promise keeping. We provide a potential intuition for our findings, which is based on the pregnancy-related biological asymmetry between genders.

Keywords: gender; guilt aversion; promises; evolutionary psychology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 C91 D03 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14
Date: 2022-06
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