This paper reports on experiments regarding cheap talk games where senders attempt deception when their interests are …

I experimentally investigate how vague language changes the nature of communication in a biased strategic information … model showing that vague messages increase communication between boundedly rational players, especially if some senders are …

Communication between departments within a firm may include deception. Theory suggests that telling lies in these … theory. That is, most communication within an incentive group is truthful and deception often occurs between subjects from … order to minimize deceptive communication between departments the firm may need to reduce incentive differences between …

This paper reports on experiments regarding cheap talk games where senders attempt deception when their interests are …

-level reasoning in later rounds of the experiments. Participants display difficulties in transferring learning to unravel in a game …

Based on Gossner, Hernández and Neyman’s (2006) 3-player game (hereafter GHN) we analyze communication efficiency in … just play the game. In the experiment we observed endogenous communication treatment NC as well as exogenous in treatment C …, both of which result in higher payoffs. Furthermore, when explicit communication is possible we observe a chat effect which …

-way free form communication message sent by the leader to the followers strongly revives cooperation. We find evidence that … repeated free form communication by the leader further strengthens the reviving effect on cooperation. Combining the two … previous interventions does not outperform the pure effect of communication. Our content analysis reveals that leader …