Personality Traits and Endogenous Group Formation

James Ahloy and John Hamman

Revue économique, 2019, vol. 70, issue 6, 999-1020

Abstract: Using a public goods game in which participants can select their groups, we investigate the role that personality plays in contribution behavior and group selection as the information available to participants about groups varies. We find that when participants only have access to information about the average personality profiles of groups, reliable relationships exist between personality traits and contribution behavior, and participants who are more agreeable than their group members on average are more likely to remain in their groups. However, when participants have access to historical contribution information about groups, both by itself and along with personality information, the relationship between personality traits and contribution behavior varies, and no reliable relationships between personality and movement exist.

Keywords: biens publics; formation des groupes; HEXACO (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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