Arbeitspapier
"I" on You: Identity in the Dictator Game
We study a giver’s generosity depending on her relationship with the recipient and the observer. We assign different group identities to the players using a variation of the minimumgroup paradigm, and test the effect of group memberships on altruistic giving in the dictator game with a passive observer. The results show that the dictator gives the least when she is from a different group than the other two. We further show that dictators give more when there is no observer. This is driven by male subjects who react more to the presence of the observer.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. TI 2019-049/II
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
Noncooperative Games
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
- Subject
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dictator game
observer
group identity
laboratory experiment
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Kopányi-Peuker, Anita
Zheng, Jin Di
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
- (where)
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (when)
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2019
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Kopányi-Peuker, Anita
- Zheng, Jin Di
- Tinbergen Institute
Time of origin
- 2019
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