Individual behavior and group membership: comment

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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 finding bridges the literature on team decision making and on group membership effects.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2008,075

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior ; Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
• Subject: Keywords: Individual behavior ; group membership ; team decision-making ; experiment ; Entscheidung bei Risiko ; Gruppenentscheidung ; Stochastischer Prozess ; Test

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Sutter, Matthias
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (where): Jena
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/31755
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET