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attitudes that are often associated with Euroscepticism (i.e. anti-trade and anti-immigration stances) are not substantially …
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income and education, and besides immigration and security, ranking identity and national sovereignty very highly on their …This paper discusses the development of Euroscepticism in France and the underlying actors and causes. First, the … between hard and soft Euroscepticism as well as diffuse and specific support for European integration guides the …
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We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … identity, while treating the others as the control group. The results demonstrate that prisoners become more dishonest when we … render their criminal identity more salient in their minds. An additional placebo experiment with regular citizens shows that …
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priming in incentivized experiments to study economic questions. We mainly focus on the role of social identity, culture, and …
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We interpret the psychology literature on social identity and examine its implications in a population partially … behavioral player is motivated by the social identity literature. For rational players, group membership has no payoff relevant …
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We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient …. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that …
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This article aims to establish how Muslim identities in Germany have been constructed by others and how they differ from realities. Muslim communities have often been viewed with suspicion by majority ethnic groups in European nation states, but even more so since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in...
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. Using individual and county-level data, we document causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of … intense fighting decreases generalized trust and increases ethnic identity. The effects are quantitatively large and robust to …
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evidence that the strategic nature of the game affects the strength of identity. We also show when the change in identity … experimental procedure we measure identity, as standard in the psychology literature, in order to assess the extent to which … action selected in the game as affecting the identity of the subject. We find that in the Mean Game, there is little …
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Since the early 1990s, the number of papers estimating econometric models and using other quantitative techniques to try to understand different aspects of the Chinese economy has mushroomed. A common feature of some of these studies is the use of neoclassical theory as the underpinning for the...
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