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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...11 For instance, Fearon and Laitin (1996) and Nakao (2009) focus on the role in which ingroup policing helps to maintain social order by avoiding social conict between groups....
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...…that focus on identity-based discrimination (see Anderson, Fryer, and Holt 2006; Bernhard, Fehr, and Fischbacher 2006; Bouckaert and Dhaene 2004; Charness, Rigotti, and Rustichini 2007; Chen and Li 2009; Croson, Marks, and Snyder 2008; Fershtman and Gneezy 2001; Glaeser et al. 2000; Goette,…...
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...15 Observer (or audience) effects that did not involve direct punishment have been observed in Charness, Rigotti, and Rustichini (2007) and Andreoni and Bernheim (2009)....
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...Like Elster (2009), Bicchieri contrasts conventions with social norms, which enforce 3 See Charness, Rigotti, and Rustichini (2007) and Andreoni and Bernheim (2009) for some experimental evidence concerning the effect of observation, 4 Note…...
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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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