The effect of constrained communication and limited information in governing a common resource
Allowing resource users to communicate in behavioural experiments on commons dilemmas increases the level of cooperation. In actual common pool resource dilemmas in the real world, communication is costly, which is an important detail missing from most typical experiments. We conducted experiments w...
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doaj-30d3d962193b48dbbbf1fce8adb83b0e2020-11-25T02:48:52ZengUtrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services)International Journal of the Commons1875-02812014-08-018261763510.18352/ijc.473224The effect of constrained communication and limited information in governing a common resourceMarco Janssen0Madeline Tyson1Allen Lee2Arizona State UniversityArizona State UniversityArizona State UniversityAllowing resource users to communicate in behavioural experiments on commons dilemmas increases the level of cooperation. In actual common pool resource dilemmas in the real world, communication is costly, which is an important detail missing from most typical experiments. We conducted experiments where participants must give up harvesting opportunities to communicate. The constrained communication treatment is compared with the effect of limited information about the state of the resource and the actions of the other participants. We find that despite making communication costly, performance of groups improves in all treatments with communication. We also find that constraining communication has a more significant effect than limiting information on the performance of groups.https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/473common pool resourceconditional cooperationcostly communicationlab experimentslimited information |
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The effect of constrained communication and limited information in governing a common resource |
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The effect of constrained communication and limited information in governing a common resource |
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The effect of constrained communication and limited information in governing a common resource |
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The effect of constrained communication and limited information in governing a common resource |
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The effect of constrained communication and limited information in governing a common resource |
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effect of constrained communication and limited information in governing a common resource |
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International Journal of the Commons |
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Allowing resource users to communicate in behavioural experiments on commons dilemmas increases the level of cooperation. In actual common pool resource dilemmas in the real world, communication is costly, which is an important detail missing from most typical experiments. We conducted experiments where participants must give up harvesting opportunities to communicate. The constrained communication treatment is compared with the effect of limited information about the state of the resource and the actions of the other participants. We find that despite making communication costly, performance of groups improves in all treatments with communication. We also find that constraining communication has a more significant effect than limiting information on the performance of groups. |
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common pool resource conditional cooperation costly communication lab experiments limited information |
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