Risk-averse and self-interested shifts in groups in both median and random rules

Yoshio Kamijo and Teruyuki Tamura ()
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Teruyuki Tamura: Department of Management, Kyoto College of Economics

No SDES-2019-3, Working Papers from Kochi University of Technology, School of Economics and Management

Abstract: This study examines whether attitudes toward risk and altruism are affected by being in a group or being alone. Differing from previous economic studies of group decision-making, we attempt to exclude the effects of group informal discussion, which are thought to be a black box when individuals make decisions in a group. Subjects in our experiment were requested only to show their faces to other members without any further communication. Moreover, we adopted two collective decision rules—namely, the median rule and the random rule—which provide the truth-telling mechanism. In experiments of both anonymous investments and donations, we found that subjects who made decisions in a group offered significantly lower amounts than individuals who made decisions alone, even controlling for individuals’ risk and altruistic preferences. Our results indicate that people are more risk averse and self-interested when they are in a group regardless of which collective decision rules are adopted.

Keywords: Group decision; Individual decision; Altruism; Decision under risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 C92 D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 70 pages
Date: 2019-04, Revised 2019-04
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Published in SDE Series, April 2019, pages 1-70

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