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What motivates people to act against their own self‐interest? In men, what seems to be irrational decision‐making in the short‐term may be explained by other long‐term benefits; thus retaliation may not be motivated by tangible costs, but instead intangible psychological variables (e.g., status threats). In contrast, there is evidence that women are more sensitive to tangible costs than are men. In...