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 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 …

cost-benefit ratio (CBR). There are indeed only two stable sets of equilibria enabling cooperation, one for low CBRs …-order discriminators which highlights the necessity for higher-order information to sustain cooperation through indirect reciprocity. In a … laboratory experiment, we find that more than 75% of subjects play strategies that belong to the predicted equilibrium set …

indirect reciprocity in the context of the evolution of cooperation, basic models of social dilemma situations, the path taken …

Indirect reciprocity is one of the major mechanisms driving the evolution of cooperation in human societies. There are … two types of indirect reciprocity: upstream and downstream reciprocity. Cooperation in downstream reciprocity follows the … pattern ‘You helped someone, and I will help you’, while the direction of cooperation is reversed in upstream reciprocity …

Intensive studies on indirect reciprocity have explored rational assessment rules for maintaining cooperation and … replicator equations using the expected payoffs of three strategies: unconditional cooperation, unconditional defection, and … stern-judging rule adoption. Our analysis shows that the use of the rule helps to maintain cooperation if reputation …

Communication has been regarded as one of the most effective devices in promoting team cooperation. But asymmetric … excluding one member from team communication hurts team cooperation: the communicating partners collude in profit allocation … communication sometimes breeds collusion and is detrimental to team efficiency. Here, we present experimental evidence showing that …