Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35148 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3554
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper, we explore the effect of identity salience on behavior in a simple social interaction. Specifically, we compare behavior in a ultimatum game across three treatments: priming subjects with a shared identity, priming subjects with an identity distinct from those with whom they will interact, and priming subjects with no particular identity. We find that subjects are most cooperative in the identity-priming treatment and least cooperative in the distinctiveness-priming treatment. Similarly, subjects reveal the highest demands in the identity-priming treatment and the lowest demands in the distinctiveness-priming treatment. We discuss the implications of these results with respect to literature on organizational identity.
Subjects: 
Identity
experiments
bargaining
JEL: 
C92
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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