information, have to rely on the observed behavior of their adult parent to infer the norm. We show that this causes a signaling … distortion in adult behavior. Compared to the benchmark case of no signaling, parents have a higher propensity to adopt attitudes … of interest between sender and receiver in standard signaling games. The norm-signaling bias is self-reinforcing and …

This paper reports on an experiment testing Credible Message Rationalizability (CMR) in one-shot and repeated signaling …