When Does Communication Improve Coordination?

Strategic Information Transmission

1982 • 4,220 citations

Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction

2003 • 3,736 citations

Natural language and natural selection

1990 • 2,370 citations

Subjectivity and correlation in randomized strategies

1974 • 1,625 citations

Evolutionary dynamics: exploring the equations of life

2007 • 1,610 citations

Unraveling in Guessing Games: An Experimental Study

2007 • 1,556 citations

A Cognitive Hierarchy Model of Games

2004 • 1,549 citations

Arms and Influence

1966 • 1,520 citations

Behavioral Game Theory

1990 • 1,431 citations

On Players′ Models of Other Players: Theory and Experimental Evidence

1995 • 1,170 citations

Cheap Talk

1996 • 948 citations

Cognition and Behavior in Normal-Form Games: An Experimental Study

2001 • 858 citations

Games of perfect information, predatory pricing and the chain-store paradox

1981 • 786 citations

Experimental evidence on players' models of other players

1994 • 707 citations

Communication in Coordination Games

1992 • 700 citations

Epistemic Conditions for Nash Equilibrium

2016 • 686 citations

Strategic Communication with Lying Costs

2009 • 584 citations

A Survey of Experiments on Communication via Cheap Talk

1998 • 576 citations

Epistemic Conditions for Nash Equilibrium

1995 • 574 citations

Cognition and Behavior in Two-Person Guessing Games: An Experimental Study

2006 • 559 citations

Level-k Auctions: Can a Nonequilibrium Model of Strategic Thinking Explain the Winner's Curse and Overbidding in Private-Value Auctions?

2007 • 539 citations

Cheap Talk, Coordination, and Entry

1987 • 534 citations

Iterated Dominance and Iterated Best-Response in Experimental P-Beauty Contests

1998 • 510 citations

Promises, Threats and Fairness

2004 • 436 citations

Coordination Through Committees and Markets

1988 • 434 citations

Pinocchio's Pupil: Using Eyetracking and Pupil Dilation to Understand Truth Telling and Deception in Sender-Receiver Games

2010 • 415 citations

Instinctive and Cognitive Reasoning: A Study of Response Times

2007 • 410 citations

Coordination Through Committees and Markets

2011 • 409 citations

Lying for Strategic Advantage: Rational and Boundedly Rational Misrepresentation of Intentions

2003 • 389 citations

Communication in the Battle of the Sexes Game: Some Experimental Results

1989 • 378 citations

Overcommunication in strategic information transmission games

2005 • 370 citations

Communication, commitment, and cooperation in social dilemma.

1994 • 347 citations

The effects of costless pre-play communication: Experimental evidence from games with Pareto-ranked equilibria

2005 • 328 citations

Stated Beliefs and Play in Normal-Form Games

2008 • 285 citations

Self-Serving Cheap Talk: A Test Of Aumann's Conjecture

2000 • 269 citations

It's What You Say, Not What You Pay: An Experimental Study of Manager-Employee Relationships in Overcoming Coordination Failure

2007 • 269 citations

Rules, Communication, and Collusion: Narrative Evidence from the Sugar Institute Case

2001 • 259 citations

The Illusion of Leadership: Misattribution of Cause in Coordination Games

2001 • 244 citations

Fatal Attraction: Salience, Naïveté, and Sophistication in Experimental “Hide-and-Seek” Games

2007 • 240 citations

Subjectivity and Correlation in Randomized Strategies

2023 • 237 citations

Self-referential thinking and equilibrium as states of mind in games: fMRI evidence

2005 • 219 citations

Communication, coordination and Nash equilibrium

1988 • 212 citations

Do Actions Speak Louder Than Words? An Experimental Comparison of Observation and Cheap Talk

2002 • 197 citations

Communication between rational agents

1990 • 175 citations

An Evolutionary Approach to Pre-Play Communication

1995 • 154 citations

Credible assignments in coordination games

1992 • 149 citations

To Review or Not to Review? Limited Strategic Thinking at the Movie Box Office

2012 • 141 citations

Language, Meaning, and Games: A Model of Communication, Coordination, and Evolution

2008 • 137 citations

When are Nash equilibria self-enforcing? An experimental analysis

2001 • 137 citations

A two-person game of information transmission

2006 • 136 citations

Comparing Models of Strategic Thinking in Van Huyck, Battalio, and Beil's Coordination Games

2009 • 134 citations

A Model of Pre-game Communication

1994 • 117 citations

Testing Game Theory

2004 • 116 citations

Do People Rely on the Self-Interested Maximization of Others? An Experimental Test

1994 • 100 citations

Testing Game Theory in the Field: Swedish LUPI Lottery Games

2011 • 97 citations

Is There a Hold‐up Problem?

2004 • 95 citations

Cheap-talk and cooperation in a society

1991 • 90 citations

Equilibrium refinement vs. level-k analysis: An experimental study of cheap-talk games with private information

2008 • 78 citations

Rationality, coordination, and convention

1990 • 74 citations

Credible negotiation statements and coherent plans

1989 • 72 citations

Prisoners’ other Dilemma

2014 • 67 citations

Equilibrium Refinement Versus Level-k Analysis: An Experimental Study of Cheap-Talk Games with Private Information

2015 • 53 citations

Neutrally Stable Outcomes in Cheap-Talk Coordination Games

2000 • 53 citations

Behaviorally Optimal Auction Design: Examples and Observations

2009 • 51 citations

Communication, Risk, and Efficiency in Games

1998 • 49 citations

Cognition and Behavior in Two-Person Guessing Games

2003 • 47 citations

Evolutionary stability in unanimity games with cheap talk

1991 • 46 citations

Credible communication and cooperation: Experimental evidence from multi-stage Games

2011 • 45 citations

Evolution of theories of mind

2011 • 42 citations

Promises and conventions – An approach to pre-play agreements

2013 • 41 citations

Communication, Computability, and Common Interest Games

1999 • 32 citations

Risk, pre-play communication and equilibrium

2003 • 31 citations

The Illusion of Leadership

1996 • 26 citations

Communication and Efficiency in Coordination Game Experiments

2005 • 21 citations

Pinocchio's Pupil: Using Eyetracking and Pupil Dilation to Understand Truth-Telling and Deception in Sender-Receiver Game

2009 • 20 citations

Truth, Trust, and Sanctions: On Institutional Selection in Sender–Receiver Games*

2013 • 19 citations

A Suggested Interpretation of Some Experimental Results on Preplay Communication

2002 • 19 citations

Bounded rationality and endogenous preferences

2008 • 18 citations

Authority and communication in the laboratory

2011 • 17 citations

Common and almost common knowledge of credible assignments in a coordination game

2006 • 17 citations

Let’s Talk It Over: Coordination Via Preplay Communication With Level-k Thinking

2007 • 10 citations

Measuring Attention and Strategic Behavior in Games with Private Information

2009 • 9 citations

Language and coordination games

2020 • 9 citations

Organizational structure as the channeling of boundedly rational pre-play communication

2006 • 7 citations

Evolutionary Stability in Unanimity Games with Cheap Talk

2010 • 4 citations

Measuring attention and strategic behavior in games with private information

2009 • 4 citations

Price competition, level-k theory and communication

2008 • 3 citations

Setting the Anchor: Price Competition, Level-n Theory and Communication

2007 • 1 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations