Titre
The Impact of Social Ties on Group Interactions: Evidence from Minimal Groups and Randomly Assigned Real Groups
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Goette, L.
Auteure/Auteur
Huffman, D.
Auteure/Auteur
Meier, S.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
ISSN
1945-7669
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2012-02
Volume
4
Numéro
1
Première page
101
Dernière page/numéro d’article
115
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Economists are increasingly interested in how group membership affects individual behavior. The standard method assigns individuals to "minimal" groups, i.e. arbitrary labels, in a lab. But real group often involve social interactions leading to social ties between group members. Our experiments compare randomly assigned minimal groups to randomly assigned groups involving real social interactions. While adding social ties leads to qualitatively similar, although stronger, in-group favoritism in cooperation, altruistic norm enforcement patterns are qualitatively different between treatments. Our findings contribute to the micro-foundation of theories of group preferences, and caution against generalizations from "minimal" groups to groups with social context.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_C655A6298958
Date de création
2011-09-15T09:47:01.962Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-21T02:25:55Z