Reacting to ambiguous messages: An experimental analysis

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kellner, Christian; Le Quement, Mark T.; Riener, Gerhard
• 署名单位: University of Southampton; University of East Anglia; Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf
• 刊物名称: GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0899-8256
• DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2022.09.007
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 360-378
• 关键词: Ambiguity aversion; COMMUNICATION; persuasion; laboratory experiment

摘要

Ambiguous language is ubiquitous and often deliberate. Recent theoretical work (Bose and Renou, 2014; Kellner and Le Quement, 2018; Beauchene et al., 2019) has shown how language ambiguation can improve outcomes by mitigating conflict of interest. Our experiment finds a significant effect of language ambiguation on subjects who are proficient at Bayesian updating. For ambiguity averse subjects within this population, a significant part of this effect operates via the channel of subjects' desire to reduce ambiguity. For both ambiguity averse and neutral subjects within this population, an additional behavioral channel is also present.(c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).