weakly dominated strategies. Existing evidence shows neither cheap talk communication between players nor historical …-talk communication. We find oath significantly improves the truthfulness of messages sent, as well as helps eliminating weakly dominated …

We experimentally study the effect of the mode of digital communication on the emergence of swift trust in a principal …-agent relationship. We consider three modes of communication that differ in the capacity to transmit nonverbal content: plain text, audio …, and video. Communication is pre-play, one-way, and unrestricted, but its verbal content is homogenized across treatments …

We experimentally study the effect of the mode of digital communication on the emergence of trust in a principal …-agent relationship. We consider three modes of communication that differ in the capacity to transmit nonverbal content: plain text, audio …, and video. Communication is pre-play, one-way, and unrestricted, but its verbal content is homogenized across treatments …