One-shot exogenous interventions increase subsequent coordination in Denmark, Spain and Ghana

Anna Lou Abatayo; Bo Jellesmark Thorsen

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0187840

One-shot exogenous interventions increase subsequent coordination in Denmark, Spain and Ghana

Anna Lou Abatayo, Bo Jellesmark Thorsen

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Abstract

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.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Artikelnummer	e0187840
Tidsskrift	P L o S One
Vol/bind	12
Udgave nummer	11
Antal sider	19
ISSN	1932-6203
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187840
Status	Udgivet - nov. 2017

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