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One-shot exogenous interventions increase subsequent coordination in Denmark, Spain and Ghana
Everyday, we are bombarded with periodic, exogenous appeals and instructions on how to behave. How do these appeals and instructions affect subsequent coordination? Using experimental methods, we investigate how a one-time exogenous instruction affects subsequent coordination among individuals in a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5690427/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29145411 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187840 |
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author | Abatayo, Anna Lou Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark |
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description | Everyday, we are bombarded with periodic, exogenous appeals and instructions on how to behave. How do these appeals and instructions affect subsequent coordination? Using experimental methods, we investigate how a one-time exogenous instruction affects subsequent coordination among individuals in a lab. Participants play a minimum effort game repeated 5 times under fixed matching with a one-time behavioral instruction in either the first or second round. Since coordination behavior may vary across countries, we run experiments in Denmark, Spain and Ghana, and map cross-country rankings in coordination with known national measures of fractualization, uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation. Our results show that exogenous interventions increase subsequent coordination, with earlier interventions yielding better coordination than later interventions. We also find that cross-country rankings in coordination map with published national measures of fractualization, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation. |
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spelling | pubmed-56904272017-11-30 One-shot exogenous interventions increase subsequent coordination in Denmark, Spain and Ghana Abatayo, Anna Lou Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark PLoS One Research Article Everyday, we are bombarded with periodic, exogenous appeals and instructions on how to behave. How do these appeals and instructions affect subsequent coordination? Using experimental methods, we investigate how a one-time exogenous instruction affects subsequent coordination among individuals in a lab. Participants play a minimum effort game repeated 5 times under fixed matching with a one-time behavioral instruction in either the first or second round. Since coordination behavior may vary across countries, we run experiments in Denmark, Spain and Ghana, and map cross-country rankings in coordination with known national measures of fractualization, uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation. Our results show that exogenous interventions increase subsequent coordination, with earlier interventions yielding better coordination than later interventions. We also find that cross-country rankings in coordination map with published national measures of fractualization, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation. Public Library of Science 2017-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5690427/ /pubmed/29145411 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187840 Text en © 2017 Abatayo, Thorsen http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Abatayo, Anna Lou Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark One-shot exogenous interventions increase subsequent coordination in Denmark, Spain and Ghana |
title | One-shot exogenous interventions increase subsequent coordination in Denmark, Spain and Ghana |
title_full | One-shot exogenous interventions increase subsequent coordination in Denmark, Spain and Ghana |
title_fullStr | One-shot exogenous interventions increase subsequent coordination in Denmark, Spain and Ghana |
title_full_unstemmed | One-shot exogenous interventions increase subsequent coordination in Denmark, Spain and Ghana |
title_short | One-shot exogenous interventions increase subsequent coordination in Denmark, Spain and Ghana |
title_sort | one-shot exogenous interventions increase subsequent coordination in denmark, spain and ghana |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5690427/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29145411 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187840 |
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