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Anti-social behavior in groups
- 1.0497254 - NHU-C 2019 CZ eng V - Research Report
Bauer, Michal - Cahlíková, J. - Celik Katreniak, D. - Chytilová, J. - Cingl, L. - Želinský, T.
Anti-social behavior in groups.
Prague: CERGE-EI, 2018. 51 s. CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, 632. ISSN 1211-3298
Institutional support: Progres-Q24
Keywords : antisocial behavior * aggressive competitiveness * group membership
Subject RIV: AH - Economics
https://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp632.pdf
This paper provides strong evidence supporting the long-standing speculation that decisionmaking 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.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0289822
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