How does group identity affect belief formation? To address this question, we conduct a series of online experiments …

We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We … operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from psychology. A series of experiments, including a pre …

Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …

punishment option and compare it to the behavior of individuals in a laboratory experiment. We also consider different team … investigates team decisions in different settings. We study team decisions in a public goods contribution game with a costly …, regardless of the team decision rule. Overall, teams yield higher payoffs than individuals. …

too. In a gift-exchange experiment with independent payoffs between two agents we find causal evidence for peer effects …

social interaction effects. Testing for such effects raises severe identification problems. We conduct an experiment that …

observed to act in isolation from each other. In this paper we use a large-scale dictator game experiment (N = 850) to show …

about how these traits are related to social networks. Based on unique data collected using incentivized experiments on more …

In today's business environment, team work is omnipresent. But might teams be more prone toward non-compliance with … prevalence of corporate delinquencies gives rise to this concern. In our laboratory experiment, we investigate the determinants … of teams' compliance behavior. In particular, we disentangle the effect of deciding jointly as a team of two from sharing …

effect of observing a peer from that of being observed by a peer, by setting up a real effort experiment in which we …. We consider both a piece rate compensation scheme, where pay depends solely on own performance, and a team compensation … scheme, where pay also depends on the performance of other team members. Overall, we find some evidence that subjects who are …