Competition and the role of group identity

被引：6
作者：
Cornaglia, Francesca [1 ]
Drouvelis, Michalis [2 ,3 ]
Masella, Paolo [4 ]
机构：
[1] Queen Mary Univ London, Sch Econ & Finance, London, England
[2] Univ Birmingham, Dept Econ, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
[3] CESIfo, Munich, Germany
[4] Univ Bologna, Dept Econ, Bologna, Italy
来源：
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION | 2019年 / 162卷
关键词：
Competition; Social distance; Group identity; Laboratory experiment; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; PERFORMANCE; WOMEN; SHY;
D O I：
10.1016/j.jebo.2019.04.022
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
The emergence of competition is a defining aspect of human nature and characterizes many important social environments. However, its relationship with how social groups are formed has received little attention. We design an experiment to analyze how individuals' willingness to compete is affected by group identity. We find that individuals display substantially stronger competitiveness in within group (ingroup) matchings than in between group (outgroup) matchings or in a control setting where no group identity is induced. We also find that the effect of group identity is stronger for subjects who participated more actively in the team-building task. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码：136 / 145
页数：10
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