Bidding to Commit

TO COMMIT or NOT TO COMMIT ?

Bidding to Commit: An Experimental Test of the Benefits of Commitment Under Moderate Degrees of Conflict

Economists and biologists have both theorized that individuals can benefit from committing to courses of action because it forces others to concede a greater share of any surpluses, but little experimental work has tested the actual benefits of such a strategy and people’s willingness to so “tie their hands.” Participants played a Battle-of-the-Sexes (Experiment 1) or Hawk–Dove game (Experiment...

Commit to Sit in Radiology.

At Houston Methodist Hospital, Commit to Sit is a program that encourages radiology professionals to communicate with patients in a way that demonstrates compassion, respect, empathy, and competence in order to foster a trusting relationship. Using active and empathic listening, dialogue is received and understood in the way it was intended, creating a patient centric environment resulting in h...

Participant Intention - to - Commit Ack

The implicit yes{vote commit protocol (IYV), proposed for future gigabit{networked distributed databases, reduces the time required to commit a distributed transaction at the expense of independent recovery of failed participant sites. In this paper, we propose a novel coordination scheme for IYV that reduces the window of vulnerability to blocking and minimizes the time required for the sites ...

How to Commit to a Future Price

JEL Classification: L14