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Hypothesis

3 Main Points

Design & Stats

3 of My Conclusions

Capra & Liu  (2006)

Conformity in contribution games: gender and group effects

http://www.economics.emory.edu/Working_Papers/wp/capra_06_01_paper.pdf

• Moral guidance is sought when playing a contribution game.

• Decrease clarity –> increase conformity

• Increase complexity –> increase conformity

• People tend to conform to in-group rather than out-group

• [Ash had all male] Increase females –> increase conformity

• Game complexity affects conformity

• Group identity and gender mediate conformity rates

• Interested in testing some of the key conclusions that psychologists have arrived at regarding conformity

• Complexity, gender and group identity –> conformity

• Findings were consistent with those initially reported by Ash

• Experiment:

• IV Gender: equal

• IV Game: public goods or dictator

• IV Payoff irrelevant information: results for people in other countries (Control); cohorts in out-group; non-cohorts in in-group or out-group

• DV: choice of payoff

• Control variable: lottery choice game for treatment effects

• Pre-questionnaire: demographics and multiple-choice for gender bias

• Public goods game –> lottery game –> dictator game

• Participants able to choose kind and source of feedback on those who have previously played the game (info has normative value)

• Small convenience sample (n=

• Only uni undgergrads

• 10 hours of game-playing: practice effects, boredom, fatigue

• They also controlled for reciprocity motivations; why separate the whole? Conformity includes feelings of r.

• Why muddy the waters with the 3^rd treatment group? Why not measure in-group alone?

• Overall, the paper focuses on the effects of the findings of Ash