To defect or cooperate? investigating gender and cultural differences in prisoner’s dilemma game
The extent to which gender and cultural background interact to influence the level of cooperation was investigated through a game called Prisoner’s Dilemma. Eight Asians (Male = 4; Female = 4) and eight Europeans (Male = 4; Female = 4) university students, who were purposively recruited to participa...
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| author | Che Roslan, Che Nurul Herdawatti Mohamad Kadari, Haire Ninam Shah, Mohd Firdaus Roslan, Nurul Nadia Mohd Mahudin, Nor Diana |
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| description | The extent to which gender and cultural background interact to influence the level of cooperation was investigated through a game called Prisoner’s Dilemma. Eight Asians (Male = 4; Female = 4) and eight Europeans (Male = 4; Female = 4) university students, who were purposively recruited to participate in the experiment, played 10 trials of an interactive online version of the game. By taking a setting of two prisoners and their negotiations with the investigator to decrease their period of custody in a prison, all participants were informed to make a choice either to ‘defect’ or to remain ‘silent’ in every trial played. Results of a two-way ANOVA showed that there was no significant difference in the level of cooperation between males and females, with F (1, 15) = 3.346, p= 0.092, as well as in the cultural difference between Asian and European students, with F (1, 15) = 0.028, p= 0.871. No interaction was also found between gender and culture, F (1, 15) = 0.000, p= 1.000. These results imply that both male and female students in International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) exhibited almost the same level of cooperation, and cultural differences do not seem to influence cooperative interactions between the groups studied. It is likely that religious similarity may proxy for the level of cooperation within a community who shared a religious common ground. Hence, it is suggested that future studies with more diverse participants’ characteristics and larger sample size may bring forth more effective results in examining the potential role of gender and cultural factors on level of cooperation. Besides that, future researchers may modify the content of the test through linguistic equivalence such as back translation and decentered language to reduce anxiety, stress and misunderstanding that can lead to dysfunctional thought processes and behaviors. |
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| spelling | iium-379102017-06-14T05:08:43Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/37910/ To defect or cooperate? investigating gender and cultural differences in prisoner’s dilemma game Che Roslan, Che Nurul Herdawatti Mohamad Kadari, Haire Ninam Shah, Mohd Firdaus Roslan, Nurul Nadia Mohd Mahudin, Nor Diana BF180 Experimental psychology BF636 Applied psychology The extent to which gender and cultural background interact to influence the level of cooperation was investigated through a game called Prisoner’s Dilemma. Eight Asians (Male = 4; Female = 4) and eight Europeans (Male = 4; Female = 4) university students, who were purposively recruited to participate in the experiment, played 10 trials of an interactive online version of the game. By taking a setting of two prisoners and their negotiations with the investigator to decrease their period of custody in a prison, all participants were informed to make a choice either to ‘defect’ or to remain ‘silent’ in every trial played. Results of a two-way ANOVA showed that there was no significant difference in the level of cooperation between males and females, with F (1, 15) = 3.346, p= 0.092, as well as in the cultural difference between Asian and European students, with F (1, 15) = 0.028, p= 0.871. No interaction was also found between gender and culture, F (1, 15) = 0.000, p= 1.000. These results imply that both male and female students in International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) exhibited almost the same level of cooperation, and cultural differences do not seem to influence cooperative interactions between the groups studied. It is likely that religious similarity may proxy for the level of cooperation within a community who shared a religious common ground. Hence, it is suggested that future studies with more diverse participants’ characteristics and larger sample size may bring forth more effective results in examining the potential role of gender and cultural factors on level of cooperation. Besides that, future researchers may modify the content of the test through linguistic equivalence such as back translation and decentered language to reduce anxiety, stress and misunderstanding that can lead to dysfunctional thought processes and behaviors. 2014-08-07 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37910/7/Che_Roslan_et_al_2014-1_compiled.pdf Che Roslan, Che Nurul Herdawatti and Mohamad Kadari, Haire and Ninam Shah, Mohd Firdaus and Roslan, Nurul Nadia and Mohd Mahudin, Nor Diana (2014) To defect or cooperate? investigating gender and cultural differences in prisoner’s dilemma game. In: International Conference of Education, Psychology and Social Sciences (ICEPS) 2014, 6th - 8th August 2014, Taipei, Taiwan. http://iceps2014.conf.tw/site/Page.aspx?pid=901&sid=1024&lang=en |
| spellingShingle | BF180 Experimental psychology BF636 Applied psychology Che Roslan, Che Nurul Herdawatti Mohamad Kadari, Haire Ninam Shah, Mohd Firdaus Roslan, Nurul Nadia Mohd Mahudin, Nor Diana To defect or cooperate? investigating gender and cultural differences in prisoner’s dilemma game |
| title | To defect or cooperate? investigating gender and cultural differences in prisoner’s dilemma game |
| title_full | To defect or cooperate? investigating gender and cultural differences in prisoner’s dilemma game |
| title_fullStr | To defect or cooperate? investigating gender and cultural differences in prisoner’s dilemma game |
| title_full_unstemmed | To defect or cooperate? investigating gender and cultural differences in prisoner’s dilemma game |
| title_short | To defect or cooperate? investigating gender and cultural differences in prisoner’s dilemma game |
| title_sort | to defect or cooperate? investigating gender and cultural differences in prisoner’s dilemma game |
| topic | BF180 Experimental psychology BF636 Applied psychology |
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