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Ethnicity and Trust: A Multifactorial Experiment

Author(s) -

Criado Henar,

Herreros Francisco,

Miller Luis,

Ubeda Paloma

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

political studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.406

H-Index - 83

eISSN - 1467-9248

pISSN - 0032-3217

DOI - 10.1111/1467-9248.12168

Subject(s) - ethnic group , reciprocity (cultural anthropology) , catalan , context (archaeology) , homogeneous , reciprocal , social psychology , political science , sociology , demographic economics , psychology , geography , linguistics , law , economics , philosophy , physics , archaeology , thermodynamics

This article reports the results of an online experiment conducted in two ethnically fragmented societies in S pain: the B asque C ountry and C atalonia. It tests the effect of co‐ethnicity on trust and reciprocity. Ethnicity was manipulated in the experimental context using three ethnic attributes: ancestors' origin, language and name. Additionally, the article reports a comparison of general levels of trust in the two regions. No co‐ethnicity effect on trust is found, but there is significantly more reciprocal behaviour between C atalan speakers in C atalonia. Higher levels of trust and reciprocity are found in the more homogeneous society of the B asque C ountry. The lack of co‐ethnicity effect on trust is especially significant given that the B asque C ountry has experienced decades of terrorism along ethnic lines.

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