作者：Wang, Siyu; Houser, Daniel
作者单位：Missouri State University; George Mason University
摘要：Research has shown that natural language communication is more effective than intention signaling in promoting coordination. Our paper studies the reasons behind this finding. We hypothesize that, when communicating with natural language, people use and respond to both intentions and attitudes, with attitude indicating the strength of a message sender's desire to have her message followed. We test our hypothesis using controlled laboratory experiments. We find that: (i) free-form messages incl...
作者：Morton, Rebecca B.; Piovesan, Marco; Tyran, Jean-Robert
作者单位：University of Copenhagen; University of Copenhagen; University of Vienna
摘要：We experimentally investigate information aggregation through majority voting when voters are biased. In such situations, majority voting can have a dark side, that is, result in groups making choices inferior to those made by individuals acting alone. In line with theoretical predictions, information on the popularity of policy choices is beneficial when a minority of voters is biased, but harmful when a majority is biased. In theory, information on the success of policy choices elsewhere de-...
