The medium or the message? Communication relevance and richness in trust games

Synthese

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 125-147

  Bicchieri, Cristina ^a   Lev On, Azi ^a   Chavez, Alex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Computer mediated communication; Cooperation; Laboratory experiments; Social norms; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956171694     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-009-9487-y     Document Type: Article

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