Can you trust the good guys? Trust within and between groups with different missions |
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| Authors: | Sebastian Fehrler Michael Kosfeld |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Political Science and Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS), University of Zurich, Affolternstrasse 56, CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland;2. Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Germany;3. Department of Management and Microeconomics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Grüneburgplatz 1, D-60323 Frankfurt am Main, Germany;4. Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), UK;5. Center for Economic Studies (CESifo), Germany |
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| Abstract: | Non-governmental organizations and other non-profit organizations attract workers who strongly identify themselves with their missions. We study whether these “good guys” are more trustworthy, and how such pronounced group identities affect trust and trustworthiness within the groups and towards out-groups. We find that subjects who strongly identify themselves with a non-profit mission are more trustworthy in a minimal group setting but also harshly discriminate against out-groups when subjects are grouped by the missions they identify themselves with. |
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| Keywords: | C72 C92 M51 |
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