Individual behavior and group membership: comment

Charness et al. (2007b) have shown that group membership has a strong effect on individual decisions in strategic games when group membership is salient through payoff commonality. In this comment I show that their findings also apply to non-strategic decisions, even when no outgroup exists, and I relate the effects of group membership on individual decisions to joint decision making in teams. I find in an investment experiment that individual decisions with salient group membership are largely the same as team decisions. This finding bridges the literature on team decision making and on group membership effects.

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Sutter, Matthias
Publisher:	Jena : Universität Jena und Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik
Subject:	Entscheidung bei Risiko \| Gruppenentscheidung \| Stochastischer Prozess \| Test \| Keywords: Individual behavior \| group membership \| team decision-making \| experiment

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Series:	Jena economic research papers ; 2008,075
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	584110529 [GVK] hdl:10419/31755 [Handle]
Classification:	C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; C92 - Laboratory; Group Behavior ; D71 - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
Source:	EconStor