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Women are around 40% more generous than men in "Dictator Game" lab experiments measuring generosity, with personality traits and emotions affecting donation decisions



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Gender differences in dictator giving: A high-power laboratory test 

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Percentage of males and females reporting rationality vs. positive, negative, or other emotions as a reason for their decision in the DG.

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Credit: Barreda-Tarrazona et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)




Women are around 40% more generous than men in "Dictator Game" lab experiments measuring generosity, with personality traits and emotions affecting donation decisions

Article URLhttps://plos.io/40FyAnh

Article title: Gender differences in dictator giving: A high-power laboratory test

Author countries: Spain

Funding: This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2021-123053OB-I00) and Jaume I University (UJI-B2021-23). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript..

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