Dr Tomas Zelinsky's Outputs (2)

Nastiness in Groups (2023)
Journal Article
Bauer, M., Cahlíková, J., Celik Katreniak, D., Chytilová, J., Cingl, L., & Želinský, T. (2023). Nastiness in Groups. Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, Article jvad072. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvad072

This paper provides evidence showing that people are more prone to engage in nasty behavior, malevolently causing financial harm to other people at own costs, when they make decisions in a group context rather than when making choices individually on... Read More about Nastiness in Groups.

Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating (2023)
Journal Article
Bauer, M., Cahlíková, J., Chytilová, J., Roland, G., & Želinský, T. (2023). Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating. The Economic Journal, 133(652), 1626-1640. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead005

Do members of a majority group systematically shift punishment on innocent members of an ethnic minority? We introduce an experimental paradigm, the Punishing the Scapegoat Game, to measure how injustice affecting a member of one's own group shapes p... Read More about Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating.