public declarations. Previous work has examined under which conditions subsequent trust and cooperation can flourish. In this … what role social influence plays in the decision to pledge. In a public good game, subjects can make prior play a pledge to … elicited. Hence, the degree of social influence on pledge making is manipulated and its impact can be examined. I find that …

public declarations. Previous work has examined under which conditions subsequent trust and cooperation can flourish. In this … what role social influence plays in the decision to pledge. In a public good game, subjects can make prior play a pledge to … elicited. Hence, the degree of social influence on pledge making is manipulated and its impact can be examined. I find that …

We examine experimentally the impact of communication on trust and cooperation. Our design admits observation of … avoid guilt, as can be modeled using psychological game theory. When players exhibit such guilt aversion, communication may …

Revealing the identities of contributors has been shown to increase cooperation in public goods games. In this paper we … computer chat. The results confirm the positive effect of identification on cooperation among individuals. For groups, however …, we only find a small and temporary effect of identification, irrespective of the type of communication. The reason for …