Social heuristics and social roles: Intuition favors altruism for women but not for men.
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Social heuristics and social roles: Intuition favors altruism for women but not for men.
Are humans intuitively altruistic, or does altruism require self-control? A theory of social heuristics, whereby intuitive responses favor typically successful behaviors, suggests that the answer may depend on who you are. In particular, evidence suggests that women are expected to behave altruistically, and are punished for failing to be altruistic, to a much greater extent than men. Thus, wom...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1939-2222,0096-3445
DOI: 10.1037/xge0000154