Social Identity, Group Behavior, and Teams

1 Teams a Social Identity Approach

Group Identity and Social Preferences

Identity is a central concept in the social sciences. In this study, we present a laboratory experiment that measures the effects of induced group identity on participant social preferences. We find that when participants are matched with an ingroup member (as opposed to an outgroup member) they show a 47% increase in charity concerns when they have a higher payoff and a 93% decrease in envy wh...

Group Identity and Social Preferences∗

Identity is a central concept in the social sciences. In this study, we present a laboratory experiment that measures the effects of induced group identity on participant social preferences. We find that when participants are matched with an ingroup member (as opposed to an outgroup member) they show a 47% increase in charity concerns when they have a higher payoff and a 93% decrease in envy wh...

1 ! Group Bias , Identity , and Social Preferences

This paper reveals that a subset of subjects adopting extreme behavior underlies intergroup bias. In a simple task, we replicate previous results that, on average, subjects are less inequity averse allocating income to out-group members. Using a with-in subject design and new econometric techniques, however, we find a group division does not matter for most subjects; social preferences are the ...

Group Identity and Pro-Social Punishment

Cooperation is important but difficult to achieve in social dilemmas. It is even more challenging to promote cooperation among individuals from diverse backgrounds. In this paper, we design a lab experiment to investigate how group identity influences cooperation and peer punishment under the voluntary contribution mechanism of public goods. Artificial groups are created in the lab through rand...