Anti-social Behavior in Groups

Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlikova, Dagmara Celik Katreniak, Julie Chytilová (), Lubomir Cingl and Tomas Zelinsky

CERGE-EI Working Papers from The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: antisocial behavior; aggressive competitiveness; group membership; group decision-making; group conflict (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C92 C93 D01 D64 D74 D91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-cdm, nep-exp, nep-soc and nep-ure
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