Gender effects and cooperation in collective action: A laboratory experiment

Anastasia Peshkovskaya, Tatiana Babkina and Mikhail Myagkov
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Anastasia Peshkovskaya: Laboratory of Experimental Methods in Cognitive and Social Sciences, Tomsk State University, Russia; Mental Health Research Institute, Tomsk National Research Medical Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Tatiana Babkina: Institute of Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia; Department of Control and Applied Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Russia
Mikhail Myagkov: Laboratory of Experimental Methods in Cognitive and Social Sciences, Tomsk State University, Russia; Institute of Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia; Department of Political Science, University of Oregon, USA

Rationality and Society, 2019, vol. 31, issue 3, 337-353

Abstract: Numerous researches have indicated that men’s and women’s cooperation varied from no differences to significant differences under the influence of different contextual characteristics. In this study, we investigated how social factors together with a gender composition of a group affected gender differences in cooperation. We found that mixed-sex groups were the most effective in cooperation. At the same time, cooperation level in same-sex groups varied significantly. Besides, in same-sex groups, men demonstrated a higher level of trust and gratitude than women. Among women, in same-sex groups, a tendency toward mutual distrust and competition was revealed more often than among men.

Keywords: Behavior; cooperation; gender; group; group composition; mixed; prisoner’s dilemma; same-sex; social dilemma; trust (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/1043463119858788

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