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Religion, ethnicity and cooperation: An experimental study

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posted on 2023-05-20, 10:24 authored by Swee-Hoon ChuahSwee-Hoon Chuah, Jean Robert HoffmannJean Robert Hoffmann, Ramasamy, B, Tan, JHW
We investigate how cross-cutting ethnic and religious identities as well as the strength of individual religiosity and fundamentalism affect individual cooperation. In a repeated prisoner’s dilemma experiment, information about subjects’ religious and ethnic identities was either revealed or concealed to examine the individual and joint effects of these influences on subject decisions. While subjects’ knowledge of others’ religious and ethnic difference has no net effect on their cooperativeness, the awareness of similarity increases it. Subject religiosity and fundamentalism have no independent effect on cooperation, but they enhance ethnic and religious intergroup effects.

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Publication title

The Journal of Economic Psychology

Volume

45

Pagination

33-43

ISSN

0167-4870

Department/School

TSBE

Publisher

Elsevier Science Bv

Place of publication

Po Box 211, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1000 Ae

Rights statement

Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Socio-economic Objectives

Preference, behaviour and welfare

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