Anti-social behavior in groups

Bauer, Michal; Cahlikova, Jana; Celik Katreniak, Dagmara; Chytilova, Julie; Cingl, Lubomir; Zelinsky, Tomas

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3283686

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Anti-social behavior in groups

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Cahlikova, Jana
Public Economics, MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance, Max Planck Society;

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Bauer, M., Cahlikova, J., Celik Katreniak, D., Chytilova, J., Cingl, L., & Zelinsky, T. (2018). Anti-social behavior in groups. Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, No. 2018-14. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3283686.

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This paper provides strong evidence supporting the long-standing speculation that decision-making in groups has a dark side, by magnifying the prevalence of anti-social behavior towards outsiders. A large-scale experiment implemented in Slovakia and Uganda (N=2,309) reveals that deciding in a group with randomly assigned peers increases the prevalence of anti-social behavior that reduces everyone’s payoff but which improves the relative position of own group. The effects are driven by the influence of a group context on individual behavior, rather than by group deliberation. The observed patterns are strikingly similar on both continents.