Social identity mediates the positive effect of globalization on individual cooperation: Results from international experiments.

ABSTRACT: Globalization is defined for individuals as their connectivity in global networks. Social identity is conceptualized as attachment and identification with a group. We measure individual involvement with global networks and local, national, and global social identity through a questionnaire. Propensity to cooperate is measured in experiments involving local and global others. Firstly, we analyze possible determinants of global social identity. Overall, attachment to global identity is significantly lower than national and local identity, but there is a significant positive correlation between global social identity and an index of individual global connectivity. Secondly, we find a significant mediating effect of global social identity between individual global connectivity and propensity t

SUBMITTER: Grimalda G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6294391 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature