Název: Shifting punishment on minorities: experimental evidence of scapegoating
Autoři: Bauer, Michal ; Cahlíková, J. ; Chytilová, Julie ; Roland, G. ; Želinský, T.
Typ dokumentu: Výzkumné zprávy
Rok: 2021
Jazyk: eng
Edice: CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, svazek: 697
Abstrakt: This paper provides experimental evidence showing that members of a majority group systematically shift punishment on innocent members of an ethnic minority. We develop a new incentivized task, the Punishing the Scapegoat Game, to measure how injustice affecting a member of one’s own group shapes punishment of an unrelated bystander (“a scapegoat”). We manipulate the ethnic identity of the scapegoats and study interactions between the majority group and the Roma minority in Slovakia. We find that when no harm is done, there is no evidence of discrimination against the ethnic minority. In contrast, when a member of one’s own group is harmed, the punishment ”passed” on innocent individuals more than doubles when they are from the minority, as compared to when they are from the dominant group. These results illuminate how individualized tensions can be transformed into a group conflict, dragging minorities into conflicts in a way that is completely unrelated to their behavior.
Klíčová slova: inter-group conflict; minority groups; punishment
Číslo projektu: GA17-13869S (CEP), ERC300851901 (CEP)
Poskytovatel projektu: GA ČR, AV ČR

Instituce: Národohospodářský ústav AV ČR (web)
Informace o dostupnosti dokumentu: Dokument je dostupný na externích webových stránkách.
Externí umístění souboru: https://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp697.pdf
Původní záznam: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0321955

Trvalý odkaz NUŠL: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-449692


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