Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/179138 
Year of Publication: 
2017
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[Journal:] Games [ISSN:] 2073-4336 [Volume:] 8 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] MDPI [Place:] Basel [Year:] 2017 [Pages:] 1-19
Publisher: 
MDPI, Basel
Abstract: 
We experimentally investigate whether individuals are more likely to engage in dishonest behavior after having experienced unfairness perpetrated by an individual with a salient group identity. Two individuals generate an endowment together, but only one can decide how to share it. They either share the same group identity or have distinct group identities. Then, they approach a task in which they can opportunistically engage in dishonest behavior. Our results show that when individuals share the same group identity, unfair distributive decisions do not trigger a dishonest reaction. In contrast, when different group identities coexist, dishonest behavior is observed as a reaction to unfairness.
Subjects: 
group identity
fairness
dishonesty
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