Individual Behavior and Group Membership
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INSTRUCTIONS (room R)
- They have been randomly divided into two rooms, each with 10 people.
- These are actual dollars that will be paid in cash.
- All people in the room (except for the person from the other room) will be able to watch the decider who belongs to their room make his or her choice (however, no verbal comments are permitted).
- Your green numbers indicate the rounds during which it will be your turn to make a decision in the room where you are now (room R).
INSTRUCTIONS
- Thank you for participating in this experiment.
- There are 20 people participating in this session.
- There will be 10 rounds in this session, and each person will make a decision in each round.
- In some periods, you will be paired with someone in your color group, while in other periods you will be paired with someone in the other color group.
- Each person will be making a simultaneous choice between A and B in the following decision matrix:.
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...…misconduct and scandals from 1 Prior research shows that group memberships must be salient enough to be important (Peteraf and Shanley, 1997; Charness, Rigotti, and Rustichini, 2007), so it is essential for member firms to form a strong group identity when we study collective…...
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...…to a great number of follow-up studies in social psychology.1 More recently the effect of social identity in dilemma games has become the focus of some experiments in economics, both in the laboratory and in the field (See Charness et al. (2007) and Ruffle and Sosis (2006) as respective examples)....
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...…of one group member who has to bear the costs of strategy failure.21 In line with reductions of behavioral biases in group discussions (see Charness et al., 2007a, Sutter, 2007) participants frequently refer to objective probabilities in order to support higher risk taking 21 Statements…...
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...Charness et al. (2007b) show that the second aspect, group membership can be made salient through payoff commonality within groups, but also other features such as feedback about or observation of decisions taken by other group members, when an “outgroup” is present....
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...A similar motivation was demonstrated by Charness et al. (2007) and Sutter (2009), who have shown that individuals in groups tend to take actions that benefit other group members....
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...Similar conclusions on decisions by representatives can be drawn from the prisoner’s dilemma games of Charness et al. (2007), who observe reduced cooperation with out-group members if payoff commonality within a group is established....
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...It also means that different decision rules are unlikely the key driver for previous conflicting findings (Auerswald et al. 2016, Charness et al. 2007, Kroll et al. 2013, Iida & Schwieren 2016)....
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