Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an … experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subjects play a trust game. Third parties observe …

We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …-assessments can be detrimental to workers' performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our …

We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …-assessments can be detrimental to workers ́performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our …

We investigate how heterogeneous social preferences affect the communication of painful information in social …

We study how upward communication – from workers to managers – about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …-assessments can be detrimental to workers' performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our …