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Group Identity and Social Preferences
Yan Chen,Sherry Xin Li +1 more
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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
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Reputation, Social Identity and Social Conflict
TL;DR: In this paper, a population of agents from two exogenous and well defined social groups are randomly matched to play a reduced form bargaining game and it is shown that this struggle for resources drives a conflict through the rational destruction of surplus.
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Can't Buy Me Love? A Field Experiment Exploring the Trade‐Off between Income and Caste‐Status in an Indian Matrimonial Market
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Individual decision-making in operations : A behavioral perspective
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Do Justices Defend the Speech They Hate? An Analysis of In-Group Bias on the US Supreme Court
TL;DR: For decades now, experiments have revealed that we humans tend to evaluate the views or activities of our own group and its members more favorably than those of outsiders as mentioned in this paper, and that we tend to assess converg...
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Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm
Takao Kato,Pian Shu +1 more
TL;DR: This paper studied the impact of social identity on worker competition by exploiting the well-documented social divide between urban resident workers and rural migrant workers in urban Chinese firms and found that social identity has a significant impact on competition: a weaver only competes against coworkers with a different social identity, but not against those sharing her own identity.
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