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 egalitar...
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| author | Harris, D Herrmann, B Kontoleon, A Newton, 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 behaviour. 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:b0f83e54-68f4-4bf6-88c8-3362093721512024-04-03T11:00:01ZIs it a norm to favour your own group?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:b0f83e54-68f4-4bf6-88c8-336209372151EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordSpringer2014Harris, DHerrmann, BKontoleon, ANewton, 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 behaviour. 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 Newton, 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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