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Ingroup bias with multiple identities : the case of religion and attitudes towards government size
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Sgroi, Daniel, Yeo, Jonathan and Zhuo, Shi (2021) Ingroup bias with multiple identities : the case of religion and attitudes towards government size. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) (1374). (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Group identity is known to exert a powerful socio-psychological influence on behaviour but to date has been largely explored as a uni-dimensional phenomenon. We consider the role of multiple dimensions of identity, asking what might happen to ingroup and outgroup perceptions and the resulting implications for cooperation. Carefully selecting two politically charged identity dimensions documented to have similar strength and to be largely orthogonal (religious belief and views about government size), we find that priming individuals to consider both dimensions rather than one has a noticeable effect on behaviour. Moving from one to two dimensions can produce a significant increase in ingroup allocations at the expense of fairness to outgroup individuals, although the effect varies as we switch from primarily considering religion to government size. Evidence suggests that the heterogeneity of such effects is related to the degree of “harmony” between groups in the dimensions concerned.
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Group identity -- United States, Identity (Psychology) , Group identity -- Political aspects -- United States, Group identity -- Religious aspects -- United States, Identity politics-v -- United States , Intergroup relations -- United States | ||||||
Series Name: | Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) | ||||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick. Department of Economics | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry | ||||||
ISSN: | 0083-7350 | ||||||
Official Date: | September 2021 | ||||||
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Number: | 1374 | ||||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 March 2018 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 March 2018 | ||||||
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