Concern over the distributional effects of policies which induce changes in peer group structure, or associational redistributions (Durlauf, 1996c), motivates a substantial body of theoretical and empirical research in economics, sociology, psychology, and education. A growing collection of...

The current article is based on the relationship of friends and nonfriends to group performance and life satisfaction. We will examine under which conditions; performance can be enhanced with their life satisfaction. The framework is developed by using SmartPLS3. For data collection, we have...

Group cooperation, which can make the maximization of benefits, will also be affected by some factors like institutional environment, group effect, and interest conflicts among members. This paper makes study on the intra-group interactions and cooperation of team members through the modified...

Cooperation is essential to long-term group effectiveness. It is difficult to achieve, however, when the group's and an individual's goals conflict. Under these circumstances, how does cooperation emerge? One means is through trust, which is an attitude critical to the formation of cooperation...

This paper reports the results of a lab experiment designed to study the role of observability for peer effects in the setting of a simple production task. In our experiment, participants in the role of workers engage in a team real-effort task. We vary whether they can observe, or be observed...

This paper tests social identity theory with respect to individuals' self-identification behavior. We report results from a laboratory experiment in which subjects choose their group membership, which is interpreted as decision to identify with the respective group. Inducing a trade-off between...