Belief Updating About Moral Norms: Does Group Identity Matter?
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online experiment; group identity; belief updating; social norms; cheating;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2025-06-16 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
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- NEP-EXP-2025-06-16 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-MAC-2025-06-16 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-MIC-2025-06-16 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-SOC-2025-06-16 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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