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JOURNAL OF THE ECONOMIC SCIENCE ASSOCIATION-JESA
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 19-32Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s40881-021-00099-4
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Punishment; Reward; Cooperation; Gender
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- US National Science Foundation [DMS-1440140]
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The experiments revealed that people do not discriminate between men and women when they have the option to punish defectors or reward cooperators. This held true across different methods of punishing and rewarding, as well as in situations where the gender of the defector/cooperator's partner was not specified.
Do people discriminate between men and women when they have the option to punish defectors or reward cooperators? Here, we report on four pre-registered experiments that shed some light on this question. Study 1 (N = 544) shows that people do not discriminate between genders when they have the option to punish (reward) defectors (cooperators) in a one-shot prisoner's dilemma with third-party punishment/reward. Study 2 (N = 253) extends Study 1 to a different method of punishing/rewarding: participants are asked to rate the behaviour of a defector/cooperator on a scale of 1-5 stars. In this case too, we find that people do not discriminate between genders. Study 3a (N = 331) and Study 3b (N = 310) conceptually replicate Study 2 with a slightly different gender manipulation. These latter studies show that, in situations where they do not have specific beliefs about the gender of the defector/cooperator's partner, neither men nor women discriminate between genders.
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