Gender and other moderators of giving in the dictator game: A meta-analysis

Doñate-Buendía, Anabel; Garcı́a-Gallego, Aurora; Petrović, Marko D.

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2022.03.031

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“…Studies show that women and men exhibit different levels of altruism, trust, risk, fairness and envy (Azmat & Petrongolo, 2014;Stern & Madison, 2022). For instance, meta-analysis of risk preferences show that females are slightly more risk-averse (Filippin & Crosetto, 2016), they can react differently in uncertain situations (Loewenstein et al, 2001), or they are more generous (Doñate-Buendía et al, 2022) and agreeable (Feingold, 1994). As recruiters consider fit of the applicant to the job, they can be more interested in applicants of certain gender, based on the recruiters' beliefs about this gender's average characteristics (Arrow, 1973;Phelps, 1972), for example, gender stereotypical personality traits.…”

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Can group identity explain the gender gap in the recruitment process?

Asanov

Mavlikeeva

2022

Industrial Relations Journal

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Can group identity explain the gender gap in the recruitment process?

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Mavlikeeva

2022

Industrial Relations Journal

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“…Another one lies in that 84 percent of our participants were female. As previous studies have proven that female is signi cantly more generous than men 37 , and that people expect women to be more altruistic than men 38 , this could in uence the accuracy of our data. Therefore, future research studying self-serving bias in beliefs could improve these aws, which could help better understand the formation of self-serving bias.…”

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Self-serving Regret: Experimental Evidence from a Reciprocity Game

Zeng

Shen

Zheng

2022

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Self-interested behavior has been well identified in dictator games: people allocate little or nothing to serve their interests better. Although it has long been recognized that beliefs about others are critical in interpersonal interactions, the mechanism by which self-serving beliefs result in self-serving behavior remains unclear. To explore the relationship among the conflict of interest, belief formation, and the resulting behavior, this study designed a three-stage reciprocity game with belief elicitation and regret option and conducted a laboratory experiment using university students as the subject pool. By asking recipients to predict the allocators' decisions and incentivizing the prediction, we discover that people rationalize their own self-serving bias by believing that others are similarly self-interested and then returning the 'favor' in the name of fairness. Additionally, this study examined post-decision regret by the reciprocators, and the asymmetry between upward and downward adjustments indicates a self-serving pattern: Reciprocators who under-estimated the allocated amount are less likely to make an upward adjustment compared to the likelihood of downward adjustment made by those who over-estimated the allocated amount. This study contributes to the literature on self-serving bias by better understanding the presence of self-serving beliefs and self-serving behavior.

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“…Doñate-Buendía et al . [ 30 ] found gender differences in giving decisions of dictator game, in which women were on average significantly more generous than men. Our lower proportion of female dictators may have led to the less allocation difference between L1 and L2 recipients, which was presented in the result as a smaller effect size.…”

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The Medusa effect: a registered replication report of Will, Merritt, Jenkins and Kingstone (2021)

Han,

Zhang,

Liu

et al. 2024

R. Soc. Open Sci.

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Will et al .'s (2021 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 118, e2106640118 ( doi:10.1073/pnas.2106640118 )) found the Medusa effect, which refers to the tendency that people evaluate a ‘person in picture' more mindful than a ‘person in picture of a picture'. The present study tried to directly replicate the Experiments 2 and 5 of Will et al .'s (2021), to examine the reliability, validity and generalization of the Medusa effect, as well as its effect on prosocial behaviour. We used the same stimuli and methodology as the original research, but recruited participants in Japan with a larger sample size ( N = 1387 in total) as a registered report. In our two replication experiments, we again found that pictures with lower levels of abstraction (L1) were perceived to convey more mind and lead to higher levels of prosocial behaviour, successfully replicating the original findings. The results of the present study suggested the high reproducibility and generalizability of the Medusa effect. Pre-registered Stage 1 protocol: https://osf.io/xj46z (date of in-principle acceptance: 9 February 2023)

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Gender and other moderators of giving in the dictator game: A meta-analysis

Cited by 27 publications

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Can group identity explain the gender gap in the recruitment process?

Can group identity explain the gender gap in the recruitment process?

Self-serving Regret: Experimental Evidence from a Reciprocity Game

The Medusa effect: a registered replication report of Will, Merritt, Jenkins and Kingstone (2021)

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