Arbeitspapier
Anti-Social Behavior in Groups
This paper provides strong evidence supporting the long-standing speculation that decision-making in groups has a dark side, by magnifying the prevalence of anti-social behavior towards outsiders. A large-scale experiment implemented in Slovakia and Uganda (N=2,309) reveals that deciding in a group with randomly assigned peers increases the prevalence of anti-social behavior that reduces everyone's payoff but which improves the relative position of own group. The effects are driven by the influence of a group context on individual behavior, rather than by group deliberation. The observed patterns are strikingly similar on both continents.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11944
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
Field Experiments
Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
- Subject
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group decision-making
antisocial behavior
aggressive competitiveness
group membership
group conflict
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Bauer, Michal
Cahlíková, Jana
Celik Katreniak, Dagmara
Chytilová, Julie
Cingl, Lubomir
Želinský, Tomáš
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2018
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Bauer, Michal
- Cahlíková, Jana
- Celik Katreniak, Dagmara
- Chytilová, Julie
- Cingl, Lubomir
- Želinský, Tomáš
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2018
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