normative appeals through interpersonal communication should have a similar effect by making a group norm salient. The results …

We investigate how heterogeneous social preferences affect the communication of painful information in social …

This paper experimentally investigates free-riding behavior on communication cost in a coordination game and finds … strong indications of such free-riding. Firstly, the subjects wait for others to send a message when communication is costly …, which does not happen when communication is costless. Secondly, the proportion of games where no communication or one …

recipients attach to communication opportunities (experiment 2). The first experiment shows that the effect of communication on …

According to several psychological and economic studies, non-binding communication can be an effective tool to increase …

other hand the decision makers rely too much on the received information. Moreover, communication as well as payoffs … communication is less biased. In all treatments, however, the messages are more precise than theoretically predicted. …

facilitating communication between village members and between leaders and the rest of the community. Is communication an effective … game. Communication between players increases contributions to the public good. Passing of information through a random …