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

Simon Gächter, Chris Starmer, Christian Thöni, Fabio Tufano and Till O. Weber

Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 216, issue C

Abstract: 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 past studied such coordination games among socially distant anonymous players, here we study behaviour in a set of two player coordination games and compare the outcomes depending on whether the players are socially close or socially distant. We find that social closeness influences prospects for coordination, but whether it helps, harms, or has no impact on coordination probabilities, depends on the structure of the game.

Keywords: Coordination; Lab-in-the-field experiment; Oneness; Salience; Social closeness; Social distance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C92 C93 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110552

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