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Everyday Sadism and Antisocial Punishment in the Public Goods Game: Is There Evidence of Gender Differences?

Embrescia, Emily E
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marietta1525250548314061

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2018, Master of Arts, Marietta College, Psychology.
Antisocial punishment in a public goods game dilemma, the punishment of cooperative individuals, has been found to be prominent in people who display everyday sadistic tendencies. To explore this notion further, a replication and extension of Pfattheicher, Keller, and Knezevic (2016) study was performed. Building on their study looking at how activating and inhibiting the intuitive system affects antisocial punishment, we were interested in how gender affects antisocial punishment in everyday sadists. Participants played several rounds of a public goods game either against their same gender or the opposite gender while receiving specific thinking style messages. It was discovered that when males were prompted with reflective thinking style messages or no thinking style message, they antisocially punished female players less than in the intuitive thinking style condition. Overall, the current research suggests gender and thinking style can influence how people with everyday sadistic tendencies decide to engage in antisocial punishment.
Mark Sibicky, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Christopher Klein, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
49 p.
Psychology
antisocial punishment; everyday sadism; public goods game; gender

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  • Embrescia, E. E. (2018). Everyday Sadism and Antisocial Punishment in the Public Goods Game: Is There Evidence of Gender Differences? [Master's thesis, Marietta College]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marietta1525250548314061

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Embrescia, Emily. Everyday Sadism and Antisocial Punishment in the Public Goods Game: Is There Evidence of Gender Differences? 2018. Marietta College, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marietta1525250548314061.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Embrescia, Emily. "Everyday Sadism and Antisocial Punishment in the Public Goods Game: Is There Evidence of Gender Differences?" Master's thesis, Marietta College, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marietta1525250548314061

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