Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204735 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
SITE Working Paper No. 24
Publisher: 
Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), Stockholm
Abstract: 
We examine differences in behavior between subjects interacting with a member of either the same or different identity group in both a centipede game and a series of stag hunt games. We find evidence that subjects interacting with outgroup members are more likely to behave as though best-responding to uniform randomization of the partner. We conclude that group identity not only affects a player's social preferences, as identified in earlier research, but also affects the decision making process, independent of changes in the utility function.
Subjects: 
Group identity
centipede game
steg hunt game
experiment
JEL: 
C72
C91
C92
D83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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