Nationality dominates gender in decision-making in the Dictator and Prisoner's Dilemma Games.

ABSTRACT: Across a variety of contexts, adults tend to cooperate more with ingroup members than outgroup members. However, humans belong to multiple social groups simultaneously and we know little about how this cross-categorization affects cooperative decision-making. Nationality and gender are two social categories that are ripe for exploration in this regard: They regularly intersect in the real world and we know that each affects cooperation in isolation. Here we explore two hypotheses concerning the effects of cross-categorization on cooperative decision-making. First, the additivity hypothesis (H1), which proposes that the effects of social categories are additive, suggesting that people will be most likely to cooperate with partners who are nationality and gender ingroup members. Second, the

SUBMITTER: Kumar MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7806153 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature