Strategy in a Feminine Game

When triads play a simple competitive board game, there are significant differences between the two sexes in style of play. By combining a series of signs, it is possible to differentiate exploitative (masculine) and accommodative (feminine) strategies. Since many experimental situations may contain unrecognized masculine biases, feminine approaches to problems may often be obscured. A quiz game with content especially appealing to females was devised. Under these conditions, there was a significant increase in accommodative strategy in female groups, compared to the previously employed board game, but male groups did not differ significantly in the two situations on this index.