Mating Strategies and Gender Differences in Pro-sociality: Theory and Evidence

Pan, Xiaofei; Houser, Daniel

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“…Past research and theory suggest that men sometimes act altruistically as a costly signal to attract potential mates 27,28,33 . We find support for this in our evaluation of our fourth hypothesis.…”

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“…Related to the theory of sexual selection described earlier, past work 27,28 suggests that people, especially men, may act altruistically in order to emit a costly signal. To test this in the present study we quantified the information that donors had regarding a potential female audience for their generosity by calculating the proportion of female donors visible on the campaign page at the time of each donation decision.…”

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Examining charitable giving in real-world online donations

Sisco

Weber

2019

Nat Commun

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The current study uses big data to study prosocial behavior by analyzing donations made on the GoFundMe platform. In a dataset of more than $44 million in online donations, we find that 21% were made while opting to be anonymous to the public, with survey results indicating that 11% of these anonymous donations (2.3% of all donations) are not attributable to any egoistic goal. Additionally, we find that donors gave significantly more to recipients who had the same last name as them. We find evidence that men and women donated more when more donors of the opposite sex were visible on the screen at the time of donating. Our results suggest that men and women were both significantly affected by the average donation amounts visible at the time of their decisions, and men were influenced more. We find that women expressed significantly more empathy than men in messages accompanying their donations.

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Examining charitable giving in real-world online donations

Sisco

Weber

2019

Nat Commun

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“…En este sentido, si bien no fue objeto específico de este estudio, el análisis de la escala CNPROS permitiría ampliar y discutir aspectos en relación con las diferencias de género, considerando el reporte en la literatura de la variabilidad de las conductas sociales en hombres y mujeres (Balliet, Li, Macfarlan & Van Vugt, 2011;Pan & Houser, 2011).…”

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Diseño y Validación de la Escala de Creencias Normativas Sobre la Prosocialidad en Adolescentes Chilenos

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“…Research indicates that Western societies promote and reward autonomy and independence in men, while promoting pro-social behavior and interdependence in women (Bakan 1966; Maccoby 1990; Markus and Oyserman 1989). Pan and Houser (2011) provide an overview of gender di¤erences in pro-social behavior including theories from psychology as well as empirical …ndings from experimental economics. Examining this literature, they …nd that women have a preference to conform to social norms that dictate pro-social behavior.…”

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Social Relations, Incentives, and Gender in the Workplace

Onemu

2014

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract Gender di¤erences in preferences regarding social relationships and competitive environments are well documented in psychology and economics. Research also shows that social relationships and competition among co-workers are a¤ected by the incentive schemes workers are exposed to. We combine these two stylized facts and hypothesize that men and women di¤er in how they rate their co-worker relationships when they work under individual incentives, group incentives, or a combination of the two. This hypothesis is explored using survey data on 14,743 highly educated employees from 78 di¤erent organizations in the Netherlands. We …nd correlational evidence that, in the absence of individual incentives, group incentives improve co-worker relationships for women, but deteriorate co-worker relationships for men. Terms of use: Documents in

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Mating Strategies and Gender Differences in Pro-sociality: Theory and Evidence

Cited by 14 publications

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Examining charitable giving in real-world online donations

Examining charitable giving in real-world online donations

Diseño y Validación de la Escala de Creencias Normativas Sobre la Prosocialidad en Adolescentes Chilenos

Social Relations, Incentives, and Gender in the Workplace

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