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 …

cost-benefit ratio (CBR). There are indeed only two stable sets of equilibria enabling cooperation, one for low CBRs …-order discriminators which highlights the necessity for higher-order information to sustain cooperation through indirect reciprocity. In a … laboratory experiment, we find that more than 75% of subjects play strategies that belong to the predicted equilibrium set …

Communication has been regarded as one of the most effective devices in promoting team cooperation. But asymmetric … excluding one member from team communication hurts team cooperation: the communicating partners collude in profit allocation … communication sometimes breeds collusion and is detrimental to team efficiency. Here, we present experimental evidence showing that …

punishment costs. The negative effect of altruism on cooperation and material payoffs is greater the stronger is the reciprocity … motive among the members. -- public goods ; altruism ; spite ; reciprocity ; punishment ; cooperation … when group members have opportunities to punish low contributors. Cooperation may also be supported if individuals are …

Cooperation via indirect reciprocity uses a partner's reputation to enable subjects to direct help to those who … a third party, the present study explores the implications for cooperation via indirect reciprocity if a helping … helping decisions, the information about the past decision of partners has a smaller effect on cooperation rates as compared …