An Experiment in Communication

Trust, Communication and Contracts: An Experiment by

In the one-shot trust or investment game without opportunities for reputation formation or contracting, economic theory predicts no trusting because there is no incentive for trustworthiness. Under these conditions, theory predicts (a) no effect of pre-play communication, and (b) universal preference for moderate cost binding contracts over interacting without contracts. We introduce the opport...

Animal Rights Consideration is a Necessity in Conducting an Experiment

Symbolic Communication in Artificial Creatures: An Experiment in Artificial Life

This is a project on Artificial Life where we simulate an ecosystem that allows cooperative interaction between agents, including intra-specific predatorwarning communication in a virtual environment of predatory events. We propose, based on Peircean semiotics and informed by neuroethological constraints, an experiment to simulate the emergence of symbolic communication among artificial creatur...

Costly Communication in Groups: Theory and an Experiment

I develop a novel model of group-based communication in which group members communicate with one another. Communication is costly in the sense that group members who choose to send or listen to messages incur costs. Equilibrium strategies have an intuitive characterization—those with the best information send, those with the worst information receive. Free-riding leads to less information excha...

The Chemistry Preprint Server: An Experiment in Scientific Communication

The Chemistry Preprint Server (CPS) is a major new initiative for the chemical community-a freely available and permanent web archive, and distribution medium for research articles in the field of chemistry. The CPS is hosted by ChemWeb.com, the online resource for the chemical community. Registration to and membership of ChemWeb.com is free, and allows access to a wealth of information and ser...