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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...…social identification and proximity is a predictor of be- havior in different contexts related to charitable giving, trust, punishment, and reciprocity (cf. Akerlof (1997), Charness et al. (2007), Chen & Li (2009), Leider et al. (2009)), as well as neighborhood effects (cf. Damm & Dustmann (2014))....
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...What is more, our findings on the magnifying effect of social proximity are in line with the findings of Charness et al. (2007), indicating that a salient state of social identity trig- gers favoritism towards those of stronger social kinship....
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...…existing literature on social coherence, it is reasonable to assume that ob- serving the behavior of people who are socially closer or similar depicts a more salient signal in terms of what is socially accepted or an existing norm (i.e., for the case of reci- procity, see Charness et al. (2007))....
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...…social identification and proximity is a predictor of behavior in different contexts related to charitable giving, trust, punishment, and reciprocity (cf. Akerlof (1997), Charness et al. (2007), Chen & Li (2009), Leider et al. (2009)), as well as neighborhood effects (cf. Damm & Dustmann (2014))....
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...…the existing literature on social coherence, it is reasonable to assume that observing the behavior of people who are socially closer or similar depicts a more salient signal in terms of what is socially accepted or an existing norm (i.e., for the case of reciprocity, see Charness et al. (2007))....
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...…that common group identity increases contributions in public goods games (Eckel and Grossman 2005), facilitates coordination in the battle of sexes game (Charness et al., 2007) and the minimum effort game (Chen and Chen, 2011), and increases relation-specific investment (Morita and Servátka, 2013)....
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...(2007) [17] and Tan, Bolle (2007) [43] nd a causal link from intergroup con ict to intragroup cooperation in experimental games....
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...The intergenerational approach was pioneered by Schotter and Sopher [2003, 2007], and developed in the context of public good games by Chaudhuri et al. [2006]. (7)See, for example, Arbak and Villeval [2013], Gächter 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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