Gender differences in yielding to social influence: an impunity experiment
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Gender differences in yielding to social influence: an impunity experiment
zbMATH Open document ID: 1419.91182
author: Daniela Di Cagno
author: Arianna Galliera
author: Luca Panaccione
author: Werner Güth
published in: Games
publication date: 2019-01-21T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: In impunity games proposers, like allocators in dictator games, can take what they want; however, responders can refuse offers deemed unsatisfactory at own cost. We modify the impunity game via allowing offers to condition of another participant's counterfactual generosity intention. For a given pair of proposer candidates each states, via the strategy vector method, an intended and two adjusted offers: one (possibly) upward adjusted in case the intended offer of the other candidate is higher and one (possibly) downward adjusted in case it is lower. Additionally, each candidate determines an acceptance threshold for the responder role. Only one candidate in each pair is randomly selected and endowed as the actual proposer whose offer is either possibly upward or downward adjusted depending on the counterfactual offer of the other proposer candidate. The endowed proposer of one pair is matched with the non-endowed candidate of another pair in the responder role. The data confirm that counterfactual intentions of others often affect own generosity via substantial and significant average adjustments to the weakest social influence. Overall, offers seem correlated with acceptance thresholds. Furthermore, we find significant gender differences: female participants state lower intended and adjusted offers as well as acceptance thresholds and therefore appear to be less sensitive to social influence.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91A90
zbMATH DE Number: 7003979
zbMATH Keywords: generosity
zbMATH Keywords: impunity game
zbMATH Keywords: experiments
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MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: g9040086
OpenAlex ID: W2898560977
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DOI: 10.3390/G9040086
Wikidata QID: Q129021763
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7003979