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On the relationship between social distance and threat
Buba, Astrid C.; Hoog, Natascha de - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We investigated the dependence of threat perception and reaction on social distance estimation. Social identity threat …, ingroup and outgroup (OSIO, Schubert and Otten, 2002) as a measure of social distance either before or after the threat … manipulation. Results show significantly differing social distance estimations as a reaction towards the threatening comment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004965160
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Social Identity and Group Contests
Zaunbrecher, Henrik W. - 2016
Social identity has been shown to successfully enhance cooperation and effort in cooperation and coordination games. Little is known about the causal effect of social identity on the propensity to engage in group conflict. In this paper we explore theoretically and experimentally whether social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986023
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Competing social identities and intergroup discrimination : evidence from a framed field experiment with high school students in Vietnam
Tam Kiet Vuong; Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2021
We conducted a framed field experiment to explore a situation where individuals have potentially competing social identities to understand how group identification and socialization affect ingroup favoritism and out-group discrimination. The Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419371
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The effect of conflict history on cooperation within and between groups : evidence from a laboratory experiment
Beekman, Gonne; Cheung, Stephen L.; Levely, Ian - 2014
We study cooperation within and between groups in the laboratory, comparing treatments in which two groups have previously been (i) in conflict with one another, (ii) in conflict with a different group, or (iii) not previously exposed to conflict. We model conflict using an inter-group Tullock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379230
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The effect of conflict history on cooperation within and between groups : evidence from a laboratory experiment
Beekman, Goone; Cheung, Stephen L.; Levely, Ian - 2015
We study cooperation within and between groups in the laboratory, comparing treatments in which two groups have previously been (i) in conflict with one another, (ii) in conflict with a different group, or (iii) not previously exposed to conflict. We model conflict using an inter-group Tullock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318400
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On the relationship between social distance and threat
Buba, Astrid C.; Hoog, Natascha de - 2009
kind of defensive mechanism towards social identity threat are discussed. -- Social identity threat ; criticism ; distance …We investigated the dependence of threat perception and reaction on social distance estimation. Social identity threat …, ingroup and outgroup (OSIO, Schubert and Otten, 2002) as a measure of social distance either before or after the threat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833251
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The impact of group membership on cooperation and norm enforcement: Evidence using random assignment to real social groups
Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, David; Meier, Stephan - 2006
Due to incomplete contracts, efficiency of an organization depends on willingness of individuals to take non-selfish actions, such as cooperating when there is no incentive to do so or punishing inefficient actions by others. Organizations also constitute a social boundary, or group. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280934
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The impact of group membership on cooperation and norm enforcement : evidence using random assignment to real social groups
Götte, Lorenz (contributor); Huffman, David (contributor);  … - 2006 - This version: March 2006
Due to incomplete contracts, efficiency of an organization depends on willingness of individuals to take non-selfish actions, such as cooperating when there is no incentive to do so or punishing inefficient actions by others. Organizations also constitute a social boundary, or group. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003347252
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Anti-social behavior in groups
Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; Celik Katreniak, Dagmara - 2018
This paper provides strong evidence supporting the long-standing speculation that decision-making in groups has a dark side, by magnifying the prevalence of anti-social behavior towards outsiders. A large-scale experiment implemented in Slovakia and Uganda (N=2,309) reveals that deciding in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949115
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In Groups We Trust : Lower Betrayal Aversion Toward a Group than Toward an Individual
Lee, Sun; Kinias, Zoe; Vanneste, Bart - 2021
Trust is essential to many daily exchanges, wherein a trustor sometimes decides to be vulnerable to an individual or other times to a group. Although a trustor may trust an individual more or less than a group, this topic has been underexplored. We therefore examine whether people are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311314