Gender, emotions, and tournament performance in the laboratory

DOI10.3390/G8030026MaRDI QIDQ1656944zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brianna Halladay

Publication date 13 August 2018

Published in Games (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3390/g8030026

zbMATH Keywords

competitionemotionsexperimental economicsgenderpublic goods games

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multistage and repeated games (91A20) Experimental studies (91A90) Public goods (91B18)

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Summary: Individuals face competitive environments daily, and it is important to understand how emotions affect behavior in these environments and resulting economic consequences. Using a two-stage laboratory experiment, I analyze the role of reported emotions in tournament performance and assess how the behavioral response differs across genders. The first stage serves to induce emotions, while the second stage presents the subject with a one-on-one winner-take-all tournament with the individual who generated the feeling, using a real-effort task. Ultimately, I show that women respond to the negative feelings more strongly than men. I find that women increase performance when experiencing negative emotions, while male performance remains unaffected. Remarkably, there is no gender gap in tournament performance when there are negative emotions.

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