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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Cites background from "Individual Behavior and Group Membe..."
...Charness et al. (2007) and Goette et al. (2006) provide the evidence that group identity can impact individual behaviors in the prisoner’s dilemma game....
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...Charness et al. (2007) confirm the effect of group membership on behaviors and also provide the evidence of group identity formation....
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...In addition, Charness et al. (2007) investigate the effect of group membership on individual behaviors....
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...Charness et al. (2007) find that compared to isolated individuals, salient group membership significantly increases the aggressive stance of the hosts and tends to reduce that of the guests....
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...Indeed, the literature in social psychology and economics has shown the importance of group identity on behavior (Brewer, 1999; Akerlof and Kranton, 2000; Charness et al. (2007), Halevy et al., 2008; Chen and Li, 2009; Delfgaauw et al., 2009)....
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Cites background from "Individual Behavior and Group Membe..."
...[52] highlight that group membership indeed affects behavior in social dilemmas and individuals cooperate more with their in-group....
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...1 Some notable exceptions include Akerlof and Kranton (2000), Alesina et alii (2003), and Easterly and Levine (1997)....
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