In-group favoritism and moral decision-making
| Autor: | Ninghua Du, C. Bram Cadsby, Fei Song |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Economics and Econometrics Dishonesty Cheating media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Stochastic game ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING 050109 social psychology New variant Affect (psychology) Collective identity 0502 economics and business 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences In-group favoritism 050207 economics Psychology Social identity theory Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 128:59-71 |
| ISSN: | 0167-2681 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jebo.2016.05.008 |
| Popis: | We present a controlled laboratory experiment to investigate whether and to what extent people will cheat on behalf of a member of their own in-group at the expense of a non-member. We investigate the impact of social/group identity on cheating by running a new variant of the die-under-cup methodology (Fischbacher and Follmi-Heusi, 2013) that captures both the key features of in-group bias and cheating behavior. Specifically, we examine the following questions: Does moral concern curb people from cheating to benefit a member of their own in-group? Is the moral burden of cheating as strong a deterrent for such cheating for others as it is for purely selfish cheating? We find evidence of dishonesty to benefit not only oneself but also one’s in-group. In particular, we find that some people lie to increase the payoff of an in-group member even though such a lie does not affect their own monetary payoff. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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