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 ...

This paper presents a novel experiment on group conflict. Subjects are divided into groups according to preferences on paintings, and subjects are divided into groups according to self-declared political affiliations and leanings. Using a unique within subject design, we find twenty percent of subjects destroy social welfare – at personal cost – when facing a subject outside their group. This e...

The introduction of social identity into an economic framework provides a new way in which norms can affect preferences. We present experimental results that test the impact of norms on social identity dependent choice. We use a 2 (identity prime) × 2 (choice or norms) experimental design to separately and directly elicit empirical measures of identity dependent norms for eleven different redis...

Every discourse, written or oral, is the conveyer of some hidden agenda of the producer, most importantly in such genres of speech as journalism, politics, propaganda, and advertisements. Given the role of translation in discourse, a difference exists between when the translator carries the ideological values of the elite in contrast with one with patriotic preferences. In this study a comparis...

Every discourse, written or oral, is the conveyer of some hidden agenda of the producer, most importantly in such genres of speech as journalism, politics, propaganda, and advertisements. Given the role of translation in discourse, a difference exists between when the translator carries the ideological values of the elite in contrast with one with patriotic preferences. In this study a comparis...