Prosocial behavior and gender
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985998%3A_____%2F15%3A00443959" target="_blank" >RIV/67985998:_____/15:00443959 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00088" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00088</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00088" target="_blank" >10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00088</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Prosocial behavior and gender
Original language description
This study revisits different experimental data sets that explore social behavior in economic games and uncovers that many treatment effects may be gender-specific. In general, men and women do not differ in "neutral" baselines. However, we find that social framing tends to reinforce prosocial behavior in women but not men, whereas encouraging reflection decreases the prosociality of males but not females. The treatment effects are sometimes statistically different across genders and sometimes not but never go in the opposite direction. These findings suggest that (i) the social behavior of both sexes is malleable but each gender responds to different aspects of the social context, and (ii) gender differences observed in some studies might be the result of particular features of the experimental design. Our results contribute to the literature on prosocial behavior and may improve our understanding of the origins of human prosociality. We discuss the possible link between the observed
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AH - Economics
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA14-22044S" target="_blank" >GA14-22044S: Learning and Networks</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
ISSN
1662-5153
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
9
Issue of the periodical within the volume
April/Article Number 88
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
1-9
UT code for WoS article
000354563700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84939815854