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The Psychology of Coordination and Common Knowledge

Kyle A. Thomas, Peter DeScioli, Omar Sultan Haque, Steven Pinker · 2014

Three online between-subjects experiments on whether people treat common knowledge as distinct from shared and primary knowledge when deciding to risk coordination in a Stag Hunt.

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What you can do with it

Read and search the study
Yes
Run AI participants
Yes
Original human data
Partly
replication sample, not the paper's own participants; source pinned in package/thomas2014/human/key.json (2 of 2 data files downloadable from it)
Paper's results recovered from the human data
No
0 of 4 reported results recovered by the package analysis from the connected human data
Authors' analysis code
No
no author-code key recorded
  • Not in the human data: exp1 arms with payoff $1, $5, $10: the data contain one payoff level only (GBP 1.60 alone)
  • Not in the human data: exp2 (four-player game): not in the data
  • Not in the human data: exp3 (similarity manipulation, Big Five, reported level): not in the data (no similarity or Big Five columns)

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