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Charness, Gary; Dufwenberg, Martin - 2006

We examine experimentally the impact of communication on trust and cooperation. Our design admits observation of …

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What's in a Name? Anonymity and Social Distance in Dictator and Ultimatum Games

Charness, Gary; Gneezy, Uri - 2003

The standard procedure in experimental economics maintains anonymity among participants. Yet, many field interactions are conducted with neither complete anonymity nor complete familiarity. How will people respond to varying degrees of anonymity and social distance? We consider the effect of one...

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Understanding Social Preference with Simple Tests

Charness, Gary; Rabin, Matthew - 2001

Departures from self-interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of ?social preferences?. We design a range of simple experimental games that test these theories more directly than existing experiments. Our experiments show that subjects are more concerned with increasing...

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Social Distance and Reciprocity : The Internet vs. The Laboratory

Charness, Gary; Haruvy, Ernan; Sonsino, Doron - 2004

We explore the effects of social distance in experiments conducted over the Internet on three continents, in classroom laboratory sessions conducted in Israel and Spain, and in computer sessions pairing participants from different states-one in Texas and the other in California. Our design...

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Expressed Preferences and Behavior in Experimental Games

Charness, Gary; Rabin, Matthew - 2004

Participants in experimental games typically can only choose actions, without making comments about other participants' future actions. In sequential two-person games, we allow first movers to express a preference between responder choices. We find that responder behavior differs substantially...

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Cheap Talk, Information, and Coordination - Experimental Evidence

Charness, Gary; Grosskopf, Brit - 2001

Costless and non-binding pre-play communication (cheap talk) has been found to often be effective in achieving efficient outcomes in experimental games. However, in previous two-player experimental games each player was informed about both his payoff and the action of the other player in the...

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Group Play in Games and the Role of Consent in Network Formation

Charness, Gary; Jackson, Matthew O. - 2006

We study games played between groups of players, where a given group decides which strategy it will play through a vote by its members. When groups consist of two voting players, our games can also be interpreted as network-formation games. In experiments on Stag Hunt games, we find a stark...

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Trust and Trustworthiness Reputations in an Investment Game

Charness, Gary - 2010

Trust is an essential component of good social outcomes and effective economic performance. This is particularly true … first mover in a binary ‘trust' game about the past behavior of the responder as a responder. In the novel History of Trust … identical and substantial increase in ‘trust' for both of these reputation systems in comparison to the baseline no …

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Trust and reciprocity

Charness, Gary; Shmidov, Valentin - 2014

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Trust, values and false consensus

Butler, Jeffrey V.; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2012

Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate … one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that … individuals extrapolate from their own type when forming trust beliefs about the same pool of potential partners - i.e., more …

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