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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...We use a model of the IPD with social preferences and majority voting, and equilibrium selection arguments, to address these issues....
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...Charness, Rigotti, and Rustichini (2007b) find that group members “affects behavior in a strategic environment, even if this membership provides no information and has no effect on payoffs . . . [though] groups need to be salient to be important.”...
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...This result relates to the emerging literature which explores the effects of group membership on individual behavior (e.g., Charness et al., 2007; Chen and Li, 2009)....
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...Fourth, our research extends the emerging literature on how group membership influences individual behavior (Charness et al., 2007; Chen and Li, 2009; Sutter, 2009).1 In our design, experimental participants select lotteries from lottery pairs in both an individual decision making task and in a…...
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