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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...When people share a common status, the experimental literature frequently observes an in-group bias in a variety of different games, with more generosity towards other group members (Chakravarty and Fonseca, 2014; Charness et al., 2007; Chen and Chen, 2011)....
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...3 Two broad mechanisms emerge from this literature: altruism towards people with similar status and negative biases against outsiders of one’s own group (Charness et al., 2007; Heap and Zizzo, 2009; Chen and Li, 2009; Eckel and Grossman, 2005)....
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...…discriminatory and preferential behaviour (Lane, 2015).3 Two broad mechanisms emerge from this literature: altruism towards people with similar status and negative biases against outsiders of one’s own group (Charness et al., 2007; Heap and Zizzo, 2009; Chen and Li, 2009; Eckel and Grossman, 2005)....
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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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