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The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping
Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2014
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
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Fairness and persuasion: How stakeholder communication affects impartial decision making
Kleine, Marco; Langenbach, Pascal; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334523
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The Inelastic Demand for Affirmative Action
Getik, Demid; Islam, Marco; Samahita, Margaret - 2021
We study the origins of support for gender-related affirmative action (AA) in two pre-registered online experiments (N = 1, 700). Participants act as employers who decide whether to use AA in hiring job candidates. We implement three treatments to disentangle the preference for AA stemming from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208898
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The inelastic demand for affirmative action
Getik, Demid; Islam, Marco; Samahita, Margaret - 2021
We study the origins of support for gender-related affirmative action (AA) in two pre-registered online experiments (N = 1, 700). Participants act as employers who decide whether to use AA in hiring job candidates. We implement three treatments to disentangle the preference for AA stemming from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604972
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Power and the Privilege of Clarity: An Analysis of Bargaining Power and Information Transmission
de Groot Ruiz, Adrian; Offerman, Theo; Onderstal, Sander - 2011
We provide a game theoretic analysis of how power shapes the clarity of communication. We analyze information … by an experiment. Finally, we show how partial information transmission can lead to communication failure, and show how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325901
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The values of ex-ante and ex-post communication in dictator games
Langenbach, Pascal - 2016
recipients attach to communication opportunities (experiment 2). The first experiment shows that the effect of communication on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688388
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The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on the Serial Reproduction of Information
Dickinson, David L.; Drummond, Sean P.A. - 2024
Story telling is part of life, and the retelling of stories is an important form of communication, cultural practice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533895
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Quitting and peer effects at work
Rosaz, Julie; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2012
working conditions causes workers to quit at more similar times. When, and only when, communication is allowed, workers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282125
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The value of verbal feedback in allocation decisions
Schmidt, Robert J.; Schwieren, Christiane; Vollmann, Martin - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545941
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The effect of signalling and beliefs on the voluntary provision of public goods
Berlemann, Michael - 2003
We report and analyze the results of a series of classroom experiments on the voluntary provision of public goods. Using fixed effect panel regression models we find that cooperation significantly increases when participants are forced to guess the degree of overall cooperation. We also find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305450