-negligible risk of successful counter-attack by initiating the coordination. These findings provide insights for understanding social … dynamics in group coordination. …

Friendship is commonly assumed to reduce strategic uncertainty and enhance tacit coordination. However, this assumption … has never been tested across two opposite poles of coordination involving either strategic complementarity or … substitutability. We had participants interact with friends or strangers in two classic coordination games: the stag hunt game, which …

coordination in a minimum effort game. Choosing the highest effort is the payoff dominant Nash equilibrium in this game, and … benefits of coordination are low compared to the cost of mis-coordination. In this environment, players converge to the most … effort is observed by the rest of the group. We study whether leadership can prevent coordination failure and whether …

involve no conflicts of interest. While most experiments in the past studied such coordination games among socially distant …Experimental research has shown that ordinary people often perform remarkably well in solving coordination games that … anonymous players, here we study behaviour in a set of two player coordination games and compare the outcomes depending on …

It is commonly assumed that friendship should decrease strategic uncertainty in games involving tacit coordination …. However, this has never been tested on two "opposite poles" of coordination, namely, games of strategic complements and …

. However, this has never been tested on two "opposite poles" of coordination, namely, games of strategic complements and …. Friendship thus appears to have a very different impact on coordination games involving strategic complements and substitutes. We …

opportunities, heterogeneity crucially affects cooperation and coordination within groups. Compared to non-privileged groups …We experimentally investigate cooperation in privileged groups which according to Olson (1965) are groups in which at …