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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Published in:PloS one 2017-11, Vol.12 (11), p.e0187840-e0187840
Main Authors: Abatayo, Anna Lou, Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Avoidance
Biology and Life Sciences
Bombardment
Cooperation
Economic models
Economics
Energy conservation
Experimental methods
Experiments
Human acts
Human behavior
People and Places
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences
Studies
Teaching methods
Uncertainty
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0187840