Is it a norm to favour your own group?
This paper examines the relationship between norm enforcement and in-group favouritism behaviour. Using a new two-stage allocation experiment with punishments, we investigate whether in-group favouritism is considered as a social norm in itself or as a violation of a different norm, such as egalita...
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| author | Harris, D Herrmann, B Kontoleon, A Newtonor, J |
| author_facet | Harris, D Herrmann, B Kontoleon, A Newtonor, J |
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| description | This paper examines the relationship between norm enforcement and in-group favouritism behaviour. Using a new two-stage allocation experiment with punishments, we investigate whether in-group favouritism is considered as a social norm in itself or as a violation of a different norm, such as egalitarian norm. We find that which norm of behaviour is enforced depends on who the punisher is. If the punishers belong to the in-group, in-group favouritism is considered a norm and it does not get punished. If the punishers belong to the out-group, in-group favouritism is frequently punished. If the punishers belong to no group and merely observe in-group favouritism (the third-party), they do not seem to care sufficiently to be willing to punish this behavour. Our results shed a new light on the effectiveness of altruistic norm enforcement when group identities are taken into account and help to explain why in-group favouritism is widespread across societies. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:255834c2-34a9-4324-8207-2a8e7137bc422022-03-26T11:55:12ZIs it a norm to favour your own group?Working paperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042uuid:255834c2-34a9-4324-8207-2a8e7137bc42Bulk import via SwordSymplectic ElementsUniversity of Oxford2014Harris, DHerrmann, BKontoleon, ANewtonor, JThis paper examines the relationship between norm enforcement and in-group favouritism behaviour. Using a new two-stage allocation experiment with punishments, we investigate whether in-group favouritism is considered as a social norm in itself or as a violation of a different norm, such as egalitarian norm. We find that which norm of behaviour is enforced depends on who the punisher is. If the punishers belong to the in-group, in-group favouritism is considered a norm and it does not get punished. If the punishers belong to the out-group, in-group favouritism is frequently punished. If the punishers belong to no group and merely observe in-group favouritism (the third-party), they do not seem to care sufficiently to be willing to punish this behavour. Our results shed a new light on the effectiveness of altruistic norm enforcement when group identities are taken into account and help to explain why in-group favouritism is widespread across societies. |
| spellingShingle | Harris, D Herrmann, B Kontoleon, A Newtonor, J Is it a norm to favour your own group? |
| title | Is it a norm to favour your own group? |
| title_full | Is it a norm to favour your own group? |
| title_fullStr | Is it a norm to favour your own group? |
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| title_short | Is it a norm to favour your own group? |
| title_sort | is it a norm to favour your own group |
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