APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Post-Competition Contact Increases Female but Not Male Cooperation
- Maxwell White
Emmanuel College - Lindsay Hillyer
Emmanuel College - Henry Markovits
University of Quebec at Montreal - Delfina Martinez-Pandiani
Harvard - Sera Kantor
Emmanuel College - Joyce Benenson
Emmanuel College - Richard Wrangham
PhD, Cambridge University
Abstract
Reconciliation is studied primarily with nonhuman primates. 40 pairs of women and 40 pairs of men engaged in two cooperative tasks separated by a competition. Following the competition, half of the pairs were isolated and half remained together. Only women in the contact condition significantly increased their cooperative behavior.
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