Anti-Social Behavior in Groups

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Michal Bauer

Charles University in Prague - Institute of Economic Studies; CERGE-EI

Jana Cahlikova

Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance; Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Dagmara Celik Katreniak

National Research University Higher School of Economics; Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI (Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute)

Julie Chytilová

Charles University in Prague - Department of Economics

Lubomír Cingl

University of Economics, Prague

Tomas Zelinsky

Technical University of Kosice

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Date Written: November 2018

Abstract

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 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.

JEL Classification: C92, C93, D01, D64, D74, D91

Suggested Citation

Bauer, Michal and Cahlikova, Jana and Celik Katreniak, Dagmara and Chytilová, Julie and Cingl, Lubomír and Zelinsky, Tomas, Anti-Social Behavior in Groups (November 2018). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13315, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3287062

Michal Bauer

Charles University in Prague - Institute of Economic Studies ( email )

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Jana Cahlikova

Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance ( email )

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Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences ( email )

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Prague, 111 21
Czech Republic

Dagmara Celik Katreniak

National Research University Higher School of Economics ( email )

Myasnitskaya street, 20
Moscow, Moscow 119017
Russia

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Charles University in Prague - CERGE-EI (Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute) ( email )

Politickych veznu 7
Prague, 111 21
Czech Republic

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Julie Chytilová

Charles University in Prague - Department of Economics ( email )

Opletalova 26
Prague 1, 163 00
Czech Republic

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Lubomír Cingl

University of Economics, Prague ( email )

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Prague 3, 130 67
Czech Republic

Tomas Zelinsky (Contact Author)

Technical University of Kosice ( email )

Letna 9
Kosice, 04001
Slovakia

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