Recent experimental results indicate that women do not like competitive environments as much as men do. Another … social identity on men and women's willingness to compete both individually and as part of a team. To this aim, participants … Benchmark sessions did not. The main result is that men are only willing to enter a team competition with a teammate of unknown …

collected information on the female participants' menstrual cycles. We find that women bid significantly higher than men in … suggest an evolutionary hypothesis according to which women are genetically predisposed by hormones to generally behave more …

the role of opportunities separately from that of preferences. We find that both women and men equally value physical …

, albeit only for women. Women in a better than normal mood tend to exhibit mood-congruent behavior, i.e. they weight … probabilities of gains and losses relatively more optimistically. Men’s probability weights are not responsive to mood state. We … find that the application of a mechanical decision criterion, such as the maximization of expected value, immunizes men …

"We examine whether women and men of the same ability differ in their decisions to seek challenges. In the laboratory … performance, men choose the hard task about 50 percent more frequently than women, independent of performance level. Gender … choice high performing women choose the hard task significantly more often, at a rate now similar to the decision of men …