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This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape outcomes in group decision-making scenarios. Groups play a repeated coordination game in which they can agree on a payoff-dominant or a payoff-dominated but ideologically preferred outcome, or disagree and forego all...
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We report a controlled laboratory experiment examining risk-taking and information aggregation in groups facing a common risk. The experiment allows us to examine how subjects respond to new information, in the form of both privately observed signals and signals reported from others. We find...
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While most papers_new on team decision-making find teams to behave more selfish, less trusting and less altruistic than …-subjects design we re-examine group polarization by letting subjects make individual as well as team decisions in an experimental … dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team member has the strongest …
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We study the effect of group size on cooperation in voluntary contribution mechanism games. As in previous experiments, we study four- and eight-person groups in high and low marginal per capita return (MPCR) conditions. We find a positive effect of group size in the low MPCR condition, as in...
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