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Direct linkKuwabara, Ko – Social Forces, 2005
This article extends Simpson's (2003) research on sex differences in social dilemmas. To test the hypotheses that men defect in response to greed and women to fear, Simpson created Fear and Greed Dilemmas, but experiments using these games supported the greed hypothesis only. In this article I focus on why the fear hypothesis failed and suggest…
Descriptors: Fear, Gender Differences, Hypothesis Testing, Demonstration Programs
