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Miettinen & Suetens on Communication & Guild in Prisoner's Dilemmas

By Lawrence Solum

Topi Miettinen and Sigrid Suetens (University of Helsinki - Department of Economics and University of Antwerp - Faculty of Applied Economics) have posted Communication and Guilt in a Prisoner's Dilemma on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

In this paper we measure experienced guilt in a prisoner's dilemma experiment with pre-play communication. We find that feelings of guilt only arise in the case of unilateral defection and that they are stronger when players have mutually agreed to cooperate. We also find that fining unilateral defection reduces feelings of guilt.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on February 13, 2008 (boomark / email).