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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...Prominent examples are the online music sales by Radiohead, restaurants such as Wiener Deewan or Panera Bread, souvenir photos in Disneyland, Humble Bundle video games, Magnatune music or Lyft car sharing (see for example Gneezy et al. (2010), Kim et al. (2009), Regner and Barria (2009), and Riener and Traxler (2012)). Gneezy et al. (2012) attribute part of this non-selfish behavior to the desire for a positive self-image....
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...Prominent examples are the online music sales by Radiohead, restaurants such as Wiener Deewan or Panera Bread, souvenir photos in Disneyland, Humble Bundle video games, Magnatune music or Lyft car sharing (see for example Gneezy et al. (2010), Kim et al. (2009), Regner and Barria (2009), and Riener and Traxler (2012))....
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...…a large number of studies on self-image have shown that a feeling of identity can be intensified by Email address: gravert@econ.au.dk (Christina Gravert) reminding individuals that they belong to a group with certain characteristics (see for example Benjamin et al. (2010), Charness et al. (2007))....
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...Prominent examples are the online music sales by Radiohead, restaurants such as Wiener Deewan or Panera Bread, souvenir photos in Disneyland, Humble Bundle video games, Magnatune music or Lyft car sharing (see for example Gneezy et al. (2010), Kim et al....
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...They conform to the behavior of other in-group members (e.g., Charness et al. 2007, Berger andHeath 2008) because of nonconscious mimicry (e.g., Chartrand and Bargh 1999), social pressure (e.g., Cialdini et al. 1990, Austen-Smith and Fryer 2005, Mas and Moretti 2009, Zhang and Zhu 2011, Wang et al.…...
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...…2006, Chen and Li 2009)3 and most reliably in settings in which the shared social identity is naturally grown through direct social interaction (e.g. Charness et al. 2007, Goette et al. 2006) and in which it can lead to potentially significant efficiency losses (e.g. Bernhard et al. 2006, Ruffle…...
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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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