Large losses from little lies: strategic gender misrepresentation and cooperation

• Main Authors: Drouvelis, Michalis, Gerson, Jennifer, Powdthavee, Nattavudh, Riyanto, Yohanes Eko
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Economic theory; Misrepresentation; Cooperation; Social Media; Gender; Experiment
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165226
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper investigates the possibility that a small deceptive act of misrepresenting one’s gender to others reduces cooperation in the Golden Balls game, a variant of a prisoner’s dilemma game. Compared to treatments where either participants’ true genders are revealed to each other in a pair or no...