[HTML][HTML] Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems

S Gächter, C Starmer, C Thöni, F Tufano, TO Weber - Economics Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Experimental research has shown that ordinary people often perform remarkably well in
solving coordination games that involve no conflicts of interest. While most experiments in …

The doors of perception: theory and evidence of frame-dependent rationalizability

G Charness, A Sontuoso - American Economic Journal …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We investigate how strategic behavior is affected by the set of notions (frames) used when
thinking about the game. In our games the action set consists of visual objects: each player …

[HTML][HTML] Overcoming coordination failure in games with focal points: An experimental investigation

DR Arjona, S Sitzia, J Zheng - Games and Economic Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
We experimentally test whether increasing the salience of payoff-irrelevant focal points
(Schelling, 1960) can counteract the negative impact of conflicts of interest on coordination …

The doors of perception

G Charness, A Sontuoso - 2019 - digitalcommons.chapman.edu
We investigate how a player's strategic behavior is affected by the set of notions she uses in
thinking about the game, ie, the “frame”. To do so, we consider matching games where two …