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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...2A series of lab experiments create artificial affiliations with“minimal groups”and find that they generate differential behaviors toward in-group versus out-group members (Bernhard et al., 2006; Charness et al., 2007; Chen and Li, 2009)....
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...A series of lab experiments have shown that identity and affliation with“minimal groups”artificially created in a lab setting could generate powerful incentives for prosocial and altruistic behaviors towards other members within the same group (Bernhard et al., 2006; Charness et al., 2007; Chen and Li, 2009) as well as intensified and potentially harmful competitions across groups (Goette et al....
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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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