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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...They have also more recently been included in economists’ models (cf., e.g., in an experimental context, Charness, Rigotti, and Rustichini (2007), Ben-Ner et al. (2009), Chen and Li (2009), Hargreaves Heap and D. J. Zizzo (2009), Fehrler and Kosfeld (2013), and Tsutsui and D. Zizzo (2014), etc.)....
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...When group membership is more salient, Charness, Rigotti, and Rustichini, 2007 show that there is much more cooperation between ingroup members than between out-group members in a Prisoner’s dilemma game, and Fehrler and Kosfeld (2013) show that individuals associating with particular NGOs…...
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