Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The Economics of Vengeful Feelings

What Mr. Mocan found most surprising was that women turned out to be more vengeful than men. If a woman had been a victim of burglary, she was 10 percent more likely to impose a prison sentence; for men the figure was 5 percent.

I can see many more experiments coming from this article
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