On Wednesday November 19th, a session of the ISEG Research Seminars will take place from 13.00 to 14.00. The guest speaker will be João Pereira dos Santos (ISEG), who will present the paper 'Gendered Judgments of Misbehavior: Evidence from the World Youth Day Pilgrims and Lisbon citygoers.'.
The ISEG Research Seminars are held every week on Wednesdays in Lecture Theatre 4 of Quelhas (4th floor), with the participation of professors from ISEG and other Portuguese and international universities.
Abstract
We present the results of the first field experiments on prescriptive gender stereotyping in moral judgments. The first survey experiment was conducted during the 2023 World Youth Day in Lisbon, an event with Pope Francis that gathered 2 million pilgrims from around the world. We asked 1,800 pilgrims from 80 nationalities to evaluate hypothetical norm-violating scenarios involving lying, sexual promiscuity, and parental care, with varying genders. To assess external validity, we replicated the same questionnaire in multiple non-religious field settings, allowing us to compare judgments across contexts with different levels of religiosity. What did we find? Join us to discuss whether moral judgments differ by gender, whether context matters, and how religiosity shapes these perceptions.