In Gender We Trust

Overview

Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to determine whether gender has an influence on whom people choose to trust. The experimenter hypothesized that when trusting people, 90% of females are more likely to trust other females, while 10% of females will trust males. On the other hand, 60% of males will trust females, and 40% will trust males. Methods/Materials The first part of this project involved recruiting one male and one female, who read three scripts with three different scenarios into a recorder. 200 male and 200 female middle school students, the test subjects for this experiment, listened to 3 pairs of recordings. Students wrote down their age, grade, and which person they would trust if it were a real life scenario. All of this information remained anonymous throughout testing. The first half of the test subjects listened to the male recording first, whereas the second half of the test subjects listened to the female recording first. Results The results showed that for scenario 1, the majority of both male and female students trusted the male speaker. For scenario 2, there was not a large difference between those who trusted the male speaker and those who trusted the female speaker. For scenario 3, the majority of both male and female students trusted the male speaker. The order of the speakers and grade of the students did have a visible impact on whom the student chose to trust. Conclusions/Discussion The results showed that the experimenter#s hypothesis was incorrect; the male speaker was most trusted in some cases. The preference pattern for the most trusted gender was very dependent on the scenario. Due to the fact that the subject of the scenario had an influence on whom each students chose to trust.

Competition history

• CSEF 2014 Behavioral & Social Sciences · Entry J0420

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