A central question in the study of altruism has been whether there is a systematic gender difference in giving behavior …. Most experimental economics research has found that women are more generous than men. Evidence also suggests that gender … homegrown, we replicate the finding. When expectations of receiving are uniform rather than homegrown, gender differences in …

assumption of economics. A remarkable gender effect emerges, suggesting that women seem less attracted and trapped by competition …I ran an experiment in order to evaluate the relationship, if any, between power, or the search for power, and the … degree of altruism. In particular I experimentally tested whether an organization structured in a strictly hierarchical way …

dictator game allocation decisions; we use a particular technique, Social Value Orientation (SVO). In our experiment we vary …

Measures of preferences are primarily useful in that they are helpful in predicting behavior. We perform an experiment …

Results are reported of the first natural field experiment on the dictator game, where subjects are unaware that they … participate in an experiment. In contrast to predictions of the standard economic model, dictators show a large degree of pro … participate in an experiment or not. …

experiment, however, indicates that a tertiary personality variable, sometimes called psychological well-being, is the primary …