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Group identity and belief formation : a decomposition of political polarization

Bauer, Kevin; Chen, Yan; Hett, Florian; Kosfeld, Michael - 2024

How does group identity affect belief formation? To address this question, we conduct a series of online experiments with a representative sample of individuals in the US. Using the setting of the 2020 US presidential election, we find evidence of intergroup preference across three distinct...

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Teams contribute more and punish less

Auerswald, Heike; Schmidt, Carsten; Thum, Marcel; … - 2016

goods typically assume a single rational decision-maker. We use a laboratory experiment to compare team decisions to … contribute more to the public good than individuals. With a punishment option subsequently to the contribution decision team …. Extreme preferences for punishment are eliminated by the majority decision rule. Overall, team decisions are closer to the …

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Preference communication and leadership in group decision-making

Ertac, Seda; Gurdal, Mehmet Y. - 2013 - First Version: July 2012, This Version: October 2013

We report results from a laboratory experiment that explores the effects of preference communication and leader selection mechanisms in group decision-making. In a setting where all members of a group get the same payoff based on the group leader's decision of how much risk to take, we study the...

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Delegation to a group

Fehrler, Sebastian; Janas, Moritz - 2021

confirm the predicted trade-off, despite some deviations from theory on the individual level. …

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Shared leadership regulates operational team performance in the presence of extreme decisional consensus/conflict : evidences from business process reengineering

Bruccoleri, Manfredi; Riccobono, Francesca; Größler, … - In: Decision sciences : DS 50 (2019) 1, pp. 46-83

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Anti-social behavior in groups

Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; Celik Katreniak, Dagmara - 2018

This paper provides strong evidence supporting the long-standing speculation that decision-making in groups has a dark side, by magnifying the prevalence of anti-social behavior towards outsiders. A large-scale experiment implemented in Slovakia and Uganda (N=2,309) reveals that deciding in a...

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Performance in the beauty contest : how strategic discussion enhances team reasoning

Baethge, Caroline - 2016

of information exchanged between team members improves the teams' performance if and only if the teams strategically …

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Pay-what-you-want in groups : evidence from a field experiment

Proeger, Till; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 21, pp. 1550-1557

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Multi-rater performance evaluations and incentives

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2024

We compare evaluations of employee performance by individuals and groups of supervisors, analyzing a formal model and running a laboratory experiment. The model predicts that multi-rater evaluations are more precise than single-rater evaluations if groups rationally aggregate their signals about...

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A novel bias in managers' allocation of bonuses to teams : emphasis on team size instead of team contribution

Bai, Yun; Feng, Zhiyu; Pinto, Jonathan; Savani, Krishna - In: Journal of behavioral decision making 36 (2023) 4, pp. 1-15

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