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Individual behavior and group membership: Comment
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 7. Oktober 2008
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2008-075
- Schlagwort(e)
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experiment
group membership
Individual behavior
team decision-making
- Zusammenfsg.
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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 inding bridges the literature on team decision making and on group membership effects.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- article research fields JER
- experimental economics
- JEL-Classification for JER
- C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; C92 - Laboratory, Group Behavior ; D71 - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations