On the Effects of Group Identity in Strategic Environments

Chloe Le Coq, James Tremewan and Alexander Wagner

No 24, SITE Working Paper Series from Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics

Abstract: We examine differences in behavior between subjects interacting with a member of either the same or different identity group in both a centipede game and a series of stag hunt games. We find evidence that subjects interacting with outgroup members are more likely to behave as though best-responding to uniform randomization of the partner. We conclude that group identity not only affects a player's social preferences, as identified in earlier research, but also affects the decision making process, independent of changes in the utility function.

Keywords: Group identity; centipede game; steg hunt game; experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C91 C92 D83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2013-09-30, Revised 2014-10-10
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