An Experimental Investigation of Self-Serving Biases in an Auditing Trust Game: The Effect of Group Affiliation

2002 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald R. King
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Social Pressure ◽  
Trust Game ◽  
Group Norms ◽  
Group Affiliation

I report the results of an experiment designed to investigate the influence of noncredible communications and group affiliation on auditors' formation of self-serving bias. I find that manager-subjects use noncredible communications to induce auditors to develop an unwarranted trust of managers (i.e., a biased judgment). However, the bias is neutralized when auditor-subjects belong to groups that create social pressure to conform to group norms. Thus, my finding calls into question the Bazerman et al. (1997) conclusion that auditors cannot conduct impartial audits due to self-serving biases resulting from repeated interactions between auditors and their clients.

Vote Overreporting While Black: Identifying the Mechanism Behind Black Survey Respondents’ Vote Overreporting

2021 ◽  
pp. 1532673X2110221
Author(s):  
Clinton Jenkins ◽  
Ismail White ◽  
Michael Hanmer ◽  
Antoine Banks
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Social Pressure ◽  
Racial Group ◽  
Group Norms ◽  
Linked Fate ◽  
Interviewer Effects ◽  
Black Political Behavior

It is now a well-documented fact of survey research that Black survey respondents overreport turning out to vote at higher rates than many of their peers of other racial and ethnic backgrounds. We bring renewed attention to this phenomenon by investigating how the ways in which the race of the interviewer might influence a Back respondent’s propensity to overreport turning out to vote. In this paper, we test two competing mechanisms for African American overreporting and race of interviewer effects: (1) racial group linked fate, and (2) conformity with norms of Black political behavior. We find support that social pressure to conform to group norms of political behavior is behind Black respondent’s overreporting in the presence of a same-race interviewer. These results have significant implications for how we view, analyze, and consider results from such studies.

Effects of social pressure and child failure on parents’ use of control: An experimental investigation

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 378-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorien Wuyts ◽  
Maarten Vansteenkiste ◽  
Elien Mabbe ◽  
Bart Soenens
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Social Pressure

Differential Impact of Three Alcohol Prevention Curricula on Hypothesized Mediating Variables

1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Hansen ◽  
John W. Graham ◽  
Bonnie H. Wolkenstein ◽  
Beth Z. Lundy ◽  
Jill Pearson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Differential Effect ◽  
Social Pressure ◽  
Student Understanding ◽  
Alcohol Prevention ◽  
Group Norms ◽  
Differential Impact ◽  
Conservative Group ◽  
Mediating Variables ◽  
Pressure Resistance

This study examines the effects of alcohol use prevention curricula designed to have differential impact on hypothesized mediating variables. Three curricula, one which focused on teaching individuals social pressure resistance skills, one which focused on solidifying conservative group norms, and one which had a goal of increasing student understanding of the consequences of using alcohol, were tested. Results confirm that each program had a differential effect on hypothesized mediating variables.

Working Hard to Achieve Self-Defining Group Goals: A Social Identity Analysis

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 191-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly S. Fielding ◽  
Michael A. Hogg
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Group Norms ◽  
Identity Threat ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Group Goals ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Substantial Effort

Summary: A social identity model of effort exertion in groups is presented. In contrast to most traditional research on productivity and performance motivation, the model is assumed to apply to groups of all sizes and nature, and to all membership contingent norms that specify group behaviors and goals. It is proposed that group identification renders behavior group-normative and encourages people to behave in line with group norms. The effect should be strengthened among people who most need consensual identity validation from fellow members, and in intergroup contexts where there is inescapable identity threat from an outgroup. Together these processes should encourage people to exert substantial effort on behalf of their group.

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