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 …

from one continuation probability to the other. When switching from large to small, transient higher levels of cooperation … are observed in the early games of the small continuation set. Conversely, when switching from small to large, cooperation … probabilities. These asymmetries suggest a bias in favor of cooperation. Finally, we examine the link between altruism and RPD play …

will reject a low offer, it remains an open question whether anticipated verbal communication can be effective in … the form of anticipated verbal communication (no communication, one-sided communication from proposers and two …-sided communication) and find that offers are significantly higher in the presence of anticipated two-sided communication. However …

increase of cooperation, which is here extended to all two-player social dilemmas. In addition, we discuss the role of the …

Human cooperation, occurring without reciprocation and between unrelated individuals in large populations, represents … evidence for lower cooperation (i) when exposed to social information about peer cooperation levels than without such … observed cooperation was more likely to be caused by participants' general propensity to cooperate than by the effect of social …

factors that are known to affect cooperation levels, and in so doing replicate and extend previous empirical research on …