Author
Uğurlar, Nesibe Pınar, Dorrough, A. R., Isler, O., Yilmaz, O.
Publication Date
2023
Publication Place
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Sage
Subject
Cooperation, Cross-categorization, Economic game, Group membership
Type
Periodical
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
1948-5506
Record ID
5dae39bc-d2d5-44e1-9c13-61ef79ca8c04
Library Location
Psychology
Date
2023
Notes
Universität zu Köln
Sample Text
Research on cooperation between groups tends to consider a single social identity at a time. However, individuals naturally share group membership in one social category (e.g., religious belief) while diverging in membership to others (e.g., political ideology). Here, we test the effects of mixed-group membership on actual cooperative behavior relative to completely sharing (in-group) and completely diverging (out-group) group memberships. In three high-powered, preregistered, and incentivized experiments, we found evidence for our hypotheses that cooperation increases with the number of shared memberships in arbitrary (Experiment 1, N = 292) as well as naturally existing social categories such as political orientation and ethnicity (Experiment 2, N = 501) or political orientation and religious affiliation (Experiment 3, N = 292).
DOI
10.1177/19485506231209788
