Gender differences in reward allocation

Fifty-six subjects were used to study gender differences in reward allocation under three conditions. The conditions used were competitive, cooperative and neutral. There were sixteen subjects in the competitive condition, twenty-two subjects in the cooperative condition and eighteen subjects in the neutral condition. Each subject was assigned either a same gender partner or an opposite gender partner upon entering the testing situation. Each subject was either instructed: to work with his/her partner (cooperative) on a word search task, to work independently, not sharing his/her answers with his/her partner (competitive) or simply to complete the word search task (neutral). The subjects had 2 minutes to complete the task. The results were collected and each subject was then asked to complete a questionnaire. After completing the questionnaire, each subject was told that they had performed better than their partner and was asked to divide 7 points between themselves and their partner. A factorial ANOVA was used to analyze the results. No significant differences were found between males and females between subjects' perceptions or the between the three conditions.