Sex differences in social influence: Social learning

Abstract

Sex differences in social influenceability were notable for their absence in 28 social learning experiments in which sex difference data were previously unreported or unreviewed. Competition, altruism, and dyadic communication were the three substantive research areas examined. Analysis emphasized the role of repeated social influence attempts, of novel conceptions and manipulations of motivation and reward, and of realms of experimental law in which the underlying simplicity is integral and the integration is theoretical.