How to talk about an out-group: Effects on in-group trust and out-group generosity

Jan Biermann, Hendrik Hüning, Lydia Mechtenberg
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This paper examines how deliberation in an in-group on how much to share with an out-group affects in-group trust and out-group generosity. In a lab-in-the-field experiment with 13 schools, we randomly assign school minors into pairs that decide how much of a common fund to transfer to refugee minors. Treatments vary whether pairs partake in a free-form chat or write down their reasoning individually. After treatment, they vote on transfers. In our sample, communication on refugees is shaped by a political-correctness norm: it is more refugee-friendly than individual reasoning, and it increases optimism within pairs about the partner's refugee-friendliness. Subjects trust their partners the more, the more refugee-friendly they believe them to be. This is rational in our sample since more refugee-friendly subjects turn out more trustworthy. Communication also has a positive impact on willingness to collectively share funds with refugee minors. Hence, our experiment indicates that in our sample, both the in-group and the out-group profit from a political-correctness norm to speak well of the out-group.
如何谈论外群体:对内群体信任和外群体慷慨的影响
本文考察了内群体对与外群体分享多少的考虑如何影响内群体信任和外群体慷慨。在一项针对13所学校的实地实验室实验中,我们随机将学校里的未成年人分成两组,由他们决定将多少共同基金转移给未成年难民。治疗方法各不相同,无论是参与自由形式的聊天还是单独写下他们的推理。治疗后,他们对转移进行投票。在我们的样本中,关于难民的交流是由政治正确规范塑造的:它比个人推理更有利于难民,而且它增加了伴侣对难民友好的乐观态度。实验对象越信任他们的伴侣,他们认为他们对难民越友好。这在我们的样本中是合理的,因为对难民更友好的受试者更值得信赖。沟通也对集体分担未成年难民资金的意愿产生积极影响。因此,我们的实验表明,在我们的样本中,内群体和外群体都从政治正确规范中获益,从而为外群体说好话。
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