Can being competitive but unsuccessful harm you, even more so if you are a woman?

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107108

Simone Haeckl , Jakob Moeller , Anita Zednik

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Abstract

We investigate the fairness views of impartial spectators toward workers who behave competitively but are unsuccessful in a winner-take-all, real-effort task. In an online experiment with more than 5800 participants, spectators show significantly less concern for unsuccessful workers who voluntarily entered a competition for pay or behaved selfishly by trying to sabotage, compared to those who had to compete. We do not find evidence that women are punished more for competitive behavior than men, unless spectators have very strong gender norms.

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竞争但不成功会对你造成伤害吗？如果你是女性，伤害会更大吗？

我们调查了公正的旁观者对那些表现得有竞争力但在赢家通吃、真正努力的任务中不成功的工人的公平观点。在一项有5800多名参与者参与的在线实验中，与那些不得不竞争的员工相比，观众对那些自愿参加薪酬竞争或表现得自私、试图破坏工作的不成功员工的关注程度要低得多。我们没有发现证据表明女性会因为竞争行为而受到比男性更多的惩罚，除非观众有非常强烈的性别规范。

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.80

自引率

9.10%

发文量

392

期刊介绍： The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is devoted to theoretical and empirical research concerning economic decision, organization and behavior and to economic change in all its aspects. Its specific purposes are to foster an improved understanding of how human cognitive, computational and informational characteristics influence the working of economic organizations and market economies and how an economy structural features lead to various types of micro and macro behavior, to changing patterns of development and to institutional evolution. Research with these purposes that explore the interrelations of economics with other disciplines such as biology, psychology, law, anthropology, sociology and mathematics is particularly welcome.