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Area of Science:

  • Behavioral Economics
  • Neuroscience
  • Anthropology

Background:

  • Competitiveness varies significantly across genders and cultures.
  • Handedness, a trait shaped prenatally, may serve as a proxy for innate individual differences.
  • Understanding the determinants of competitiveness is crucial for various fields.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between handedness and competitiveness in an intercultural context.
  • To examine gender differences in competitiveness across different cultural settings.
  • To explore whether innate factors, proxied by handedness, influence competitive behavior.

Main Methods:

  • An intercultural experiment was conducted in India, Norway, and Tanzania with 3664 participants.
  • Incentivized choices were used to elicit and measure competitiveness.
  • Participants were categorized as either 'lefty' or 'righty' based on dominant hand or foot.

Main Results:

  • A significant gender gap in competitiveness was observed in all three cultures.
  • Results regarding the relationship between handedness and competitiveness were inconsistent across locations.
  • In India, lefties were more competitive; in Norway, lefty men were more competitive; in Tanzania, no relationship was found.

Conclusions:

  • Data suggest a potential, albeit not robust, link between being a lefty and higher competitiveness in men, but not women.
  • Individual and gender differences in competitiveness may be partially influenced by innate factors, as suggested by handedness.
  • Further research is needed to robustly establish the role of innate factors in shaping competitive behavior across diverse populations.