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The strength of weak leaders : an experiment on social influence and social learning in teams
Buechel, Berno; Klößner, Stefan; Lochmüller, Martin; … - 2018
We investigate how the selection process of a leader affects team performance with respect to social learning. We use a … lab experiment in which an incentivized guessing task is repeated in a star network with the leader at the center. Leader … selection is either based on competence, on self-confidence, or made at random. Teams with random leaders do not underperform …
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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 …
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Silence to solidarity: using group dynamics to reduce anti-transgender discrimination in India
Webb, Duncan - 2024
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Competition and the role of group identity
Cornaglia, Francesca; Drouvelis, Michalis; Masella, Paolo - 2019
. However, its relationship with how social groups are formed has received little attention. We design an experiment to analyze … more actively in the team-building task. …
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Do people keep socially unverifiable promises?
Deck, Cary A.; Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven James - 2011
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The relationship between social capital and health in China
Xue, Xindong; Mo, Marshall; Reed, W. Robert - 2016 - Revised edition
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The relationship between social capital and health in China
Xue, Xindong; Reed, W. Robert - 2015
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Comment on “Promises and partnership"
Deck, Cary A.; Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven James - 2011
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Social trust and electoral populism : explaining the quality of government
Keefer, Philip; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2019
Voters would be better off if they removed politicians offering low-quality government by pursuing populist policies and re-elected those who improved government quality with sustainable policies. In many political contexts, including those with free and fair elections, voters do the opposite....
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Juvenile delinquency and conformism
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2010 - Revised: July 2, 2009
This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...
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