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Unethical behavior and group identity in contests

Bénistant, Julien; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2019

Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary …

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Do groups fight more? : experimental evidence on conflict initiation

Ke, Changxia; Morath, Florian; Seelos, Sophia - 2023

present results from a laboratory experiment in which two parties can appropriate resources via a contest or, alternatively …, take an outside option. Keeping monetary gains expected from fighting constant across all treatments, the experiment …

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Cooperation in public goods games: Enhancing effects of group identity and competition

Horstmann, Elaine; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin; Schneider, Tim - 2017

A lot of economic and social situations can be described as contests in which agents need to distribute scare resources. Individual behavior plays an important role within these situations, while identity strongly impacts on behavior. This paper asks how group identity impacts the provision of a...

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Dishonesty as a collective-risk social dilemma

Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - In: Economic inquiry 62 (2024) 1, pp. 223-241

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Moral transgressions by groups: what drives individual voting behavior?

Feess, Eberhard; Kerzenmacher, Florian; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2020

We conduct an experiment where subjects are matched in groups of three and vote on a moral transgression. Analyzing …

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Play it again : partner choice, reputation building and learning in restarting, finitely-repeated dilemma games

Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G. - 2013

remains unclear. In each of six treatments that vary the cooperation premium and the informational basis for reputation … forces of (a) learning about the benefits of reputation, and (b) learning about backward unraveling. We find, inter alia …, that with a high cooperation premium and good information, investment in reputation grows across sets of finitely …

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Social identity, group behavior, and teams

Charness, Gary; Chen, Yan - In: Annual review of economics 12 (2020), pp. 691-713

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Dishonesty as a collective-risk social dilemma

Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2022

We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual's earnings but when the sum of claims in the group reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective...

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Decisions on extending group membership : evidence from a public good experiment

Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine; Thommes, Kirsten; … - In: Games 11 (2020) 4/61, pp. 1-27

We experimentally compare the consequences for group cooperation of two decision mechanisms involving the extension of group membership. We analyze an exogenous decision (random draw) and an endogenous decision (made by a particular group member) mechanism to extend a temporary agent's group...

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I lie? We lie! Why? : experimental evidence on a dishonesty shift in groups

Kocher, Martin; Schudy, Simeon; Spantig, Lisa - 2016

Unethical behavior such as dishonesty, cheating and corruption occurs frequently in organizations or groups. Recent experimental evidence suggests that there is a stronger inclination to behave immorally in groups than individually. We ask if this is the case, and if so, why. Using a...

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