id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_tuzgikmtpfcctjygi4xjf45v4i Michal Bauer Social contagion of ethnic hostility 2018 6 .pdf application/pdf 6776 767 59 of peers, subjects made choices after observing either destructive ethnic conflict | discrimination | hostile behavior | contagion | peer effects The aim was to capture the following situation in a controlled environment: Imagine a person living in a community in which other people suddenly start doing harm to members of a different ethnic group. that natural group attributes, including ethnicity, influence behavior in experiments. prevalence of intergroup discrimination increases when an individual happens to observe hostility of peers. When the subjects observed a peaceful peer, the prevalence of destructive choices in in the estimated influence of destructive peer behavior is statistically significant across conditions (OTHER*DESTRUCTIVE choices, subjects rated the social appropriateness of a destructive hostile peers made destructive behavior 11 percentage points indicates that all peers (one or two), whose choices a subject observed before making own decision, made a destructive choice. The influence of peers on hostile behavior (study 1) ./cache/work_tuzgikmtpfcctjygi4xjf45v4i.pdf ./txt/work_tuzgikmtpfcctjygi4xjf45v4i.txt