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Shifting normative beliefs: On why groups behave more antisocially than individuals

Behnk, Sascha; Hao, Li; Reuben, Ernesto (2022). Shifting normative beliefs: On why groups behave more antisocially than individuals. European Economic Review, 145:104116.

Abstract

A growing body of research shows that people tend to act more antisocially in groups than alone. However, little is known about why having “partners in crime” has such an effect. We run an experiment using sender–receiver games in which we elicit subjects’ normative and empirical beliefs to shed light on potential driving factors of this phenomenon. We find that the involvement of an additional sender makes the antisocial actions of senders more normatively acceptable to all parties, including receivers. By contrast, empirical beliefs are unaffected by the additional sender, suggesting that antisocial behavior increases in groups because antisocial actions become more acceptable and not because acceptable behavior is expected less often. We identify a necessary condition for this effect: the additional sender has to actively participate in the decision-making.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:03 Faculty of Economics > Department of Finance
Dewey Decimal Classification:330 Economics
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Finance
Social Sciences & Humanities > Economics and Econometrics
Scope:Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)
Language:English
Date:June 2022
Deposited On:16 Aug 2022 15:01
Last Modified:28 Oct 2024 02:35
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:0014-2921
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104116
Other Identification Number:merlin-id:22344

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