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This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a … helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized … cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different sorts of computer-mediated communication. The less anonymous (face …
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This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a … helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized … cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different sorts of computer-mediated communication. The less anonymous (face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435265
This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a … helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized … cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different sorts of computer-mediated communication. The less anonymous (face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959794
communication treatments, in which one of the stakeholders states his or her opinion prior to the allocation decision, to a baseline … without communication opportunities. We find that stakeholders who state their opinion in the communication treatments are …
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recipients attach to communication opportunities (experiment 2). The first experiment shows that the effect of communication on …
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recipients attach to communication opportunities (experiment 2). The first experiment shows that the effect of communication on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671666
Story telling is part of life, and the retelling of stories is an important form of communication, cultural practice …
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Depending on the context at hand, people's preference for receiving feedback might differ. Especially in allocation decisions that directly concern another individual, feedback from the affected person can have positive or negative value. We study such preferences in a laboratory experiment by...
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People typically update their beliefs about their own abilities too little in response to feed-back, a phenomenon known as "conservatism", and some studies suggest that they overweight good relative to bad signals ("asymmetry"). We measure individual conservatism and asymmetry in three tasks...
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We report results from a sender-receiver deception game, which tests whether an individual's decision to deceive is influenced by a concern for relative standing in a reference group. The sender ranks six possible outcomes, each specifying a payoff for him and the receiver. A message is then...
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