Which Hat to Wear? Impact of Natural Identities on Coordination and Cooperation
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Yan Chen, University of Michigan; Sherry Xin Li, University of Texas at Dallas; Tracy Xiao Liu, Tsinghua University; Margaret Shih, UCLA
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Project Citation:
Chen, Yan, Li, Sherry Xin, Liu, Tracy Xiao, and Shih, Margaret. Which Hat to Wear? Impact of Natural Identities on Coordination and Cooperation. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-08-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/E120862V1
Project Description
Summary:
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As the workforce becomes increasingly diverse, motivating individuals from different backgrounds to work together effectively is a major challenge facing organizations. In an experiment
conducted at a large public university in the United States, we manipulate the salience of participants’ multidimensional natural identities and investigate the effects of identity on coordination
and cooperation in a series of minimum-effort and prisoner’s dilemma games. By priming a fragmenting (ethnic) identity, we find that, compared to the control, participants are significantly less
likely to choose high effort in the minimum-effort games, leading to less efficient coordination. In
comparison, priming a common organization (school) identity significantly increases the choice of
a rational joint payoff maximizing strategy in a prisoner’s dilemma game.
Funding Sources:
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National Science Foundation (SES0720943)
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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social identity;
diversity;
prisoner’s dilemma;
minimum-effort game;
experiment
Geographic Coverage:
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Michigan, USA
Time Period(s):
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5/2008 – 7/2012
Collection Date(s):
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5/2008 – 7/2008;
6/2012 – 7/2012
Universe:
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Students from the two ethnic groups, Caucasians and Asians, at University of Michigan participated in the lab experiments.
Data Type(s):
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experimental data
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