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Pledges of commitment and cooperation in partnerships

Deer, Lachlan; Bayer, Ralph-C. - In: Games 7 (2016) 1, pp. 1-16

We use experimental methods to investigate whether pledges of commitment can improve cooperation in endogenously-formed partnerships facing a social dilemma. Treatments vary in terms of the individual's: (1) opportunity to commit to their partner; (2) the cost of dissolving committed...

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Communication, expectations, and trust : an experiment with three media

Abatayo, Anna Lou; Lynham, John; Sherstyuk, Katerina - In: Games 11 (2020) 4/48, pp. 1-26

We studied how communication media affect trust game play. Three popular media were considered: traditional face-to-face, Facebook groups, and anonymous online chat. We considered post-communication changes in players' expectations and preferences, and further analyzed the contents of group...

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Intention or request : the impact of message structures

Wang, Siyu; Flannery, Timothy - In: Games 12 (2021) 1/12, pp. 1-13

This paper investigates how different message structures impact communication strategy as well as sender and receiver behavior. Specifically, we focus on comparing communication games with messages stating an intention versus a request. Our experimental results show that when a game includes...

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Lab-sophistication : does repeated participation in laboratory experiments affect pro-social behaviour?

Medda, Tiziana; Pelligra, Vittorio; Reggiani, Tommaso - In: Games 12 (2021) 1/18, pp. 1-14

Experimental social scientists working at research-intensive institutions deal inevitably with subjects who have most likely participated in previous experiments. It is an important methodological question to know whether participants that have acquired a high level of lab-sophistication show...

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Incentive magnitude effects in experimental games : bigger is not necessarily better

Pulford, Briony D.; Colman, Andrew M.; Loomes, Graham - In: Games 9 (2018) 1/4, pp. 1-10

In experimental games, task-related incentives are payments to experimental subjects that vary according to their …-form games under task-related incentives of conventional magnitude and compared them with choices and reasons in the same games … under incentives five times as large. Both strategy choices and self-reported reasons for choices were almost …

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Pledges of commitment and cooperation in partnerships

Deer, Lachlan; Bayer, Ralph-C. - In: Games 7 (2016) 1, pp. 1-16

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709878

Communication, expectations, and trust: An experiment with three media

Abatayo, Anna Lou; Lynham, John; Sherstyuk, Katerina - In: Games 11 (2020) 4, pp. 1-26

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013200046

Intention or request: The impact of message structures

Wang, Siyu; Flannery, Timothy - In: Games 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-13

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013200074

Lab-sophistication: Does repeated participation in laboratory experiments affect pro-social behaviour?

Medda, Tiziana; Pelligra, Vittorio; Reggiani, Tommaso - In: Games 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-14

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013200080

Information transmission and countervailing biases in organizations

Chiba, Saori - In: Games 15 (2024) 3, pp. 1-25

A decision maker (DM) must choose between two projects or decide on no project. The expected benefits of these projects are correlated. The DM seeks advice from an agent with private information about the projects' benefits. However, the agent's divergent preferences for projects and lack of...

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