Gender and cooperation in children: experiments in Colombia and Sweden.

In this article we compare cooperation among Colombian and Swedish children aged 9-12. We illustrate the dynamics of the prisoner's dilemma in a new task that is easily understood by children and performed during a physical education class. We find no robust evidence of a difference in cooperat...

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Main Authors: Juan-Camilo Cárdenas, Anna Dreber, Emma von Essen, Eva Ranehill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3948702?pdf=render