Defections from Covenants in Conflict: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Punishment
When social groups face existential crises or protracted intergroup conflict, they may employ punishment to elicit the conformity of ingroup members. . This is supported by experimental work at the group level, which finds that punishment indeed increases conformity and cohesion. However, observational studies suggests that punishment can also result in marginalized group members switching their allegiance to an outgroup. By limiting individual’s ability to switch group membership, prior experimental work on group behaviour has fallen short of fully investigating how individuals respond to intra-group sanctions. We seek to expand this body of work by introducing the possibility to ‘defect’ in an intergroup conflict setting. We present our experimental design and results from pilot sessions before moving forward with full data collection.
Date: 24 January 2023, 14:30 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2023)
Venue: Butler Room
Venue Details: This is a hybrid event--interested participants can attend in person or virtually via Zoom
Speakers: Noah Bacine (University of Oxford), Mirko Reul (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva)
Organising department: Nuffield College
Organiser: Noah Bacine (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: noah.bacine@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Part of: CESS Colloquium Series
Booking required?: Recommended
Booking url: https://cess-nuffield.nuff.ox.ac.uk/events/colloquium/noah-bacine-mirko-reul-university-of-oxford-university-of-lausanne/
Booking email: noah.bacine@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Public
Editors: Noah Bacine, Martina Beretta