Christina Rott

TL;DR: The overall gender gap persists even though it disappears among low and strong performers, and the persistence is due to an emerging gender gap among intermediate performers driven by women following more the advice to stay out of the tournament in this performance group.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study how, after a history of decay, cooperation in a repeated voluntary contribution game can be revived in an enduring way, and find evidence that repeated free-form communication by the leader further strengthens the reviving effect on cooperation.

TL;DR: This article used a natural field experiment to test several hypotheses on effective means to attract minority candidates for top professional careers, and found that signaling explicit interest in employee diversity more than doubled the interest in openings among racial minority candidates, as well as the likelihood that they apply and are selected.

TL;DR: This chapter presents a first survey of laboratory studies using communication and surveys a number of issues about the implementation of communication in the laboratory, including variations in the channels, the structure and the content analysis of communication.

TL;DR: This paper found that receivers punish both the decision maker and the spokesperson more often, and more heavily, for unfair allocations communicated by the spokesperson if there is room for shifting blame. But they also found that the increased punishment results from the messenger's style of delivery: spokespersons are more likely than decision makers to express emotional regret instead of rational need.