DOI: 10.5061/dryad.738pm17
title: Data from: To help or punish in the face of unfairness: men and women prefer mutually-beneficial strategies over punishment in a sexual selection context

description: There is evidence that the evolution of cooperation is, in part,
 maintained through sexual selection. Supporting this, within a female
 choice model, men display mutually-beneficial behaviour to attract women,
 and women prefer men who do so. This evidence is based on a 2-choice
 -architecture (cooperate or not). Here we extend this to include
 punishment options within a 4-choice-architecture (‘punishing a
 transgressor’, ‘compensating a victim’, ‘both punishing and compensating’
 or ‘doing-nothing’). Both compensation (a self-serving mutually-beneficial
 behaviour) and self-serving punishment, are associated with positive mate
 qualities. We test which is preferred by males and which is chosen by
 female undergraduates in a sexual selection context. We further explore
 effects of trait empathy and political ideology on these preferences. In a
 series of three studies using a third-party-punishment-compensation (3PPC)
 game we show (Study One), that romantically-primed undergraduate males,
 express a preference to either ‘compensate’ or ‘both compensate and
 punish’, and undergraduate women find males who ‘compensate’ or
 ‘compensate and punish’ the most attractive (Studies Two and Three).
 Compensating men are perceived as compassionate, fair and strong by
 undergraduate women (Study Three). High trait empathy (Studies One and
 Three) and a left-wing political ideology (Study Three) are associated
 with a preference for compensation. Thus, self-serving mutually-beneficial
 behaviour can be preferred over self-serving punishment as a signal of
 mate quality in undergraduates. Implications for the evolution of
 cooperation are discussed with respect to sexual selection.
description: RSOS_Altruism_Wins_Out_Expt_1Data from Experiment one in “To Help or Punish in the Face of Unfairness: Men and Women Prefer Mutually-Beneficial Strategies over Punishment in a Sexual Selection Context” By Eamonn Ferguson, Erin Quigley, Georgia Powell, Liam Stewart, Freya Harrison, and Holly TallentireRSOS_Altruism_Wins_Out_Expt_2Data from Experiment two in “To Help or Punish in the Face of Unfairness: Men and Women Prefer Mutually-Beneficial Strategies over Punishment in a Sexual Selection Context” By Eamonn Ferguson, Erin Quigley, Georgia Powell, Liam Stewart, Freya Harrison, and Holly TallentireRSOS_Altruism_Wins_Out_Expt_3Data from Experiment three in “To Help or Punish in the Face of Unfairness: Men and Women Prefer Mutually-Beneficial Strategies over Punishment in a Sexual Selection Context” By Eamonn Ferguson, Erin Quigley, Georgia Powell, Liam Stewart, Freya Harrison, and Holly TallentireRSOS_Altruism_Wins_Out_Expt_3 GEEData from Experiment three GEE analyses in “To Help or Punish in the Face of Unfairness: Men and Women Prefer Mutually-Beneficial Strategies over Punishment in a Sexual Selection Context” By Eamonn Ferguson, Erin Quigley, Georgia Powell, Liam Stewart, Freya Harrison, and Holly TallentireCFAStudy3Data from Experiment three for MPlus analyses in “To Help or Punish in the Face of Unfairness: Men and Women Prefer Mutually-Beneficial Strategies over Punishment in a Sexual Selection Context” By Eamonn Ferguson, Erin Quigley, Georgia Powell, Liam Stewart, Freya Harrison, and Holly Tallentire