scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

Group Identity and Social Preferences

Yan Chen, +1 more
- 01 Feb 2009 - 
- Vol. 99, Iss: 1, pp 431-457
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
This paper found that participants are significantly more likely to choose social welfare-maximizing actions when matched with an ingroup member when compared to when they are matched with a non-group identity.
Abstract
We present a laboratory experiment that measures the effects of induced group identity on social preferences. We find that when participants are matched with an ingroup member, they show a 47 percent increase in charity concerns and a 93 percent decrease in envy. Likewise, participants are 19 percent more likely to reward an ingroup match for good behavior, but 13 percent less likely to punish an ingroup match for misbehavior. Furthermore, participants are significantly more likely to choose social-welfare-maximizing actions when matched with an ingroup member. All results are consistent with the hypothesis that participants are more altruistic toward an ingroup match. (

read more

Content maybe subject to copyright    Report

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Identity, Overconfidence, and Investment Decisions

TL;DR: Men are more risk-tolerant than women and invest more than women as discussed by the authors, and the saliency of male identity increases men's beliefs about experiencing good outcomes in a game of chance.
Posted Content

'You must not know about me' - On the willingness to share personal data

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide three experimental studies with a total of 470 participants that help characterizing individual preferences for sharing personal data varying the characteristics of potential recipients, finding that participants' willingness to share personal data with anonymous recipients decreases with the number of recipients.
Journal ArticleDOI

Farmers' identity, property rights cognition and perception of rural residential land distributive justice in China: Findings from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors discussed the impact of farmers' identity and property rights cognition on their perceptions of rural residential land distributive justice using the survey data of 565 rural households in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China by principal component analysis and binary logistic regression.
Posted Content

From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration

TL;DR: This article found that immigrants living in areas that received more Black migrants experienced higher assimilation along a range of outcomes, such as naturalization rates and intermarriages with native-born spouses.
Journal ArticleDOI

Group composition and conditional cooperation

TL;DR: This paper examined how group composition affects conditional cooperation in public good games and found that majority members contributed more to the public good than minority members, however, contributions were mainly related to beliefs about the contributions of others, especially others from the same teams, rather than minority/majority status.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Controlling the false discovery rate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing

TL;DR: In this paper, a different approach to problems of multiple significance testing is presented, which calls for controlling the expected proportion of falsely rejected hypotheses -the false discovery rate, which is equivalent to the FWER when all hypotheses are true but is smaller otherwise.
Book ChapterDOI

The social identity theory of intergroup behavior

TL;DR: A theory of intergroup conflict and some preliminary data relating to the theory is presented in this article. But the analysis is limited to the case where the salient dimensions of the intergroup differentiation are those involving scarce resources.
Journal ArticleDOI

z-Tree: Zurich toolbox for ready-made economic experiments

TL;DR: Z-Tree as mentioned in this paper is a toolbox for ready-made economic experiments, which allows programming almost any kind of experiments in a short time and is stable and easy to use.
Journal ArticleDOI

A theory of fairness, competition and cooperation

TL;DR: This paper showed that if some people care about equity, the puzzles can be resolved and that the economic environment determines whether the fair types or the selesh types dominate equilibrium behavior in cooperative games.
Related Papers (5)