Gender Differences in Cooperation and Competition
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Gender differences in cooperation and competition: the male-warrior hypothesis.
Evolutionary scientists argue that human cooperation is the product of a long history of competition among rival groups. There are various reasons to believe that this logic applies particularly to men. In three experiments, using a step-level public-goods task, we found that men contributed more to their group if their group was competing with other groups than if there was no intergroup compe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Science
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0956-7976,1467-9280
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01842.x