Communication, choice continuity, and player number in a continuous-time public goods experiment.
Communication, choice continuity, and player number in a continuous-time public goods experiment.
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连续时间公共物品实验中的沟通、选择连续性和玩家数量。
DOI:
10.1007/s11403-021-00334-5
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
Yoshio
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文献类型:
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作者:
Iida;Yoshio
This study seeks to determine the fundamental factors that foster cooperative outcomes in continuous-time public goods (PG) experiments. Recent research reveals that the subjects in a continuous-time PG experiment with communication and in a continuous-time prisoner’s dilemma (PD) experiment exhibit highly cooperative behavior. This study more closely examines the role of communication in continuous-time PG experiments. Based on the results of a fixed-form communication experiment that yielded the same high contribution rate as a free communication experiment, this study shows that the essential elements of communication leading to cooperation are the call to cooperation and response to it. Additionally, this study investigates why continuous-time PD experiments can induce high-level mutual cooperation without communication—unlike a PG experiment—by conducting cross-experiments between them. The results reveal that the number of players is a highly important, and choice continuity of the PG experiment is not a significant obstacle.