People prefer to negotiate with women, even when outcomes are identical and gender is unknown.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A · 2026 · PMC13320683 · PMID 42330279

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does not quite reach significanceP = 0.068so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The model is also robust when we include participant gender and points as covariates and include a random intercept for the negotiation dyad, except that with the raw count of occurrences, the model does not quite reach significance ( P = 0.068).

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