Doubts and Dogmatism in Conflict Behavior

Riboni, Alessandro

dc.contributor.author	Riboni, Alessandro
dc.date.accessioned	2011-12-05T10:32:01Z
dc.date.available	2011-12-05T10:32:01Z
dc.date.issued	2011-01
dc.identifier.uri	https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/7719
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Social Conflict	en
dc.subject	Cultural Transmission	en
dc.subject	Dogmatism	en
dc.subject	Doubts	en
dc.subject	Ideology	en
dc.subject	Altruism	en
dc.subject.ddc	338.5	en
dc.subject.classificationjel	D64	en
dc.subject.classificationjel	D74	en
dc.title	Doubts and Dogmatism in Conflict Behavior	en
dc.type	Document de travail / Working paper
dc.contributor.editoruniversityother	Department of Economics, University of Montreal;Canada
dc.description.abstracten	Conflicts are likely less violent if individuals entertain the possibility that the opponent may be right. Why is it so difficult to observe this attitude? To answer this question, this paper studies information transmission from an informed principal (the parent) to a naive agent (the son). After being informed, the agent participates in a game of con ict. The parent wants to motivate his son to exert effort in the conflict, but he also cares that the son has the right incentives to acquire information and that he selects the correct policy. Finally, to study cultural transmission over time we consider a two-period OG economy where the son becomes a parent when he is old. Under some conditions dogmatic attitudes are observed : individuals never doubt, conflicts are violent and bad decisions are made. We also argue that societies may find it difficult to abandon dogmatic attitudes over time. Under some other conditions, skeptical attitudes of systematic doubt are instead observed. However, we argue that in the long-run parents may stop inducing skeptical attitudes: societies where individuals systematically doubt are likely to switch to fact-based attitudes.	en
dc.publisher.name	Université de Montréal	en
dc.publisher.city	Montréal	en
dc.identifier.citationpages	39	en
dc.description.sponsorshipprivate	non	en
dc.subject.ddclabel	Microéconomie	en

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