The usage of apologies and group cooperation

• Main Authors: Yeo, Jonathan, Zhuo, Shi
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Social Sciences; Experiment; Apology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/180585
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Using a repeated public goods game, we experimentally examine how apologies support mutual cooperation in groups. In two treatments where participants can send either public or private apologies, contributions increase by 0.43 and 0.87 standard deviations respectively, compared to a control treatmen...