We present clean evidence of a direct social context effect on behavior in a laboratory experiment: the gender …

to guess which of the five gambles each of the other subjects chose, and is paid for correct guesses. The experiment is …

embodiment - has tended to be culturally associated with femininity. Research on cognitive "gender schema", then, may at least …

pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments … controlled experiment in which subjects were given an opportunity to choose a risky outcome - a real-stakes gamble with a higher … choices to environmental factors could be explored. The results of our real-stakes gamble show that gender differences in …

In their article "Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk Taking," Gary Charness and Uri Gneezy (2012) review a … indicate only that modest differences (at most) exist at aggregate levels, such as group means. The evidence in favor of gender …