In-group favoritism and discrimination among multiple out-groups

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In this study, we investigate how and why people discriminate among different groups, including their own groups and multiple out-groups. In a laboratory experiment, we use dictator games for five groups to compare actual transfers to in-group and out-group agents with the respective beliefs held by dictators and recipients in these groups. We observe both in-group favoritism and discrimination among multiple out-groups. Individuals expect others to be in-group biased, as well as to be treated differently by different out-groups. Dictators' in-group favoritism is positively related to the degree of in-group favoritism they expect other dictators to exhibit. Moreover, we find that a dictator tends to be relatively more generous toward a specific out-group when he or she expects that dictators belonging to that out-group are generous toward members of his or her ingroup.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IWQW Discussion Papers ; No. 05/2015

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior ; Expectations; Speculations ; Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles ; Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
• Subject: discrimination ; experiment ; group identity ; dictator game ; beliefs

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Grimm, Veronika ; Utikal, Verena ; Valmasoni, Lorenzo
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institut für Wirtschaftspolitik und Quantitative Wirtschaftsforschung (IWQW)
• (where): Nürnberg
• (when): 2015

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/110590
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET