Seminario 25/05 – Juan Francisco Blázquiz Pulido (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca & University of Alicante): Two Perspectives in Experimental Economics: From Deceptive Communication to the Development of Strategic Sophistication
Who’s the deceiver? Identifying deceptive intentions in communication. Recognizing people’s deceptive intentions when communicating is crucial to detect statements that may drive us to unintended harmful decisions. This paper studies individuals’ intentions in games where players can tell the truth with deceiving purposes. In a preregistered experiment, we combine a sender-receiver game with possible strategic…