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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...The effects of artificially induced weak identities increase with the salience of identities (Charness, Rigotti, and Rustichini 2007; Chen and Chen 2011; Eckel and Grossman 2005); operationally, a key factor that raises such salience is interactions with fellow group members in performing joint…...
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...Type of Competition Findings from previous studies indicate that the degree of in-group bias is positively correlated with the salience of group identity (e.g. Mullen et al., 1992; Eckel and Grossman, 2005; Charness et al., 2007; Rand et al., 2009; Chen and Chen, 2011; Shayo and Zussman, 2011)....
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...Findings from previous studies indicate that the degree of in-group bias is positively correlated with the salience of group identity (e.g. Mullen et al., 1992; Eckel and Grossman, 2005; Charness et al., 2007; Rand et al., 2009; Chen and Chen, 2011; Shayo and Zussman, 2011)....
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...1 One could also consider this to be a diminishment of (or alienation with respect to) group membership or identity (Akerlof and Kranton, 2000; Charness, Rigotti, and Rustichini, 2007; Chen and Li, 2008)....
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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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