Trust-based communication in known and unknown gender interactions.

In Schniter and Shields (2019) we focus on fundamental issues of trust-based communication that may be affected by gender: the decisions whether to deliver private information and whether to trust that this delivered information is honest. Using laboratory experiments that model trust-based strategic communication and response, we examined the relationship between gender, gender stereotypes, and gender discriminative lies and challenges. We presented males and females with incentivized stereotype elicitation tasks that reveal their expectations of lies and challenges from each gender, followed by a series of strategic communication interactions within and between genders. After conclusions of those interactions, we provide participants feedback about their interactions. After having provided feedback we repeat the incentivized stereotype elicitation tasks that reveal their expectations of lies and challenges from each gender, followed by a series of strategic communication interactions within and between genders. In this companion publication, we provide the raw data generated by participants (N = 80) in the role of "Sender" and also "Receiver" in our trust-based communication experiment, interacting with others in same, unknown, and different gender groups. This data is organized into four parts (1) individual quiz and post-experiment questionnaire, (2) the senders’ reporting decisions to each group before and after feedback (3 groups x 2 feedback), (3) the receivers’ challenge decisions from each group before and after feedback (3 groups x 2 feedback), and (4) a summary of the first three files with feedback elicited beliefs and before and after feedback, along with a codebook explaining summary data. We also include a document that notes how expected earnings included in the summary file were calculated