Guilt Aversion and Other Motivations : Eve Versus Adam

We explore gender differences in how people are motivated. We focus on guilt aversion, a surprisingly relatively unexplored issue. Our experiment supports the idea that men are more guilt averse than women. We provide a potential intuition for our findings based on the pregnancy-related biological asymmetry between genders. Finally, our paper explores other rationales to explain observed gender behaviors, like moral commitment

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Year of publication:	[2023]
Authors:	Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni ; Dufwenberg, Martin ; Papa, Stefano ; Razzolini, Laura
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (21 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.4380485 [DOI]
Classification:	A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values ; C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D03 - Behavioral Economics; Underlying Principles ; D64 - Altruism
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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