Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in … environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the exact role of communication is not well … understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring and communication structures in the laboratory. Under all monitoring …

We study how upward communication – from workers to managers – about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …-assessments can be detrimental to workers' performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our …

We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games …

and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …

Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an … experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subjects play a trust game. Third parties observe …

experiment, we test whether altruistic behavior in the form of charitable giving is indeed correlated with trustworthiness and …

aggression. In this lab experiment, we find that adopting an objective attitude (Objective), through a form of emotion regulation …