FRAMING AND COMMUNICATION IN EXPERIMENTS:

The focus of this thesis is to answer the question whether communication changes the effect of social framing in the Prisoner’s Dilemma. An online survey is conducted to answer this question. The following four treatments are in the different surveys: Wall Street game frame and Community game frame, both frames have one treatment with and one without communication. In total 146 respondents participated in the survey. The main result of this thesis is that there is no significant difference in the cooperation rate between the different treatments in this online survey. This means that that communication does not change the effect of social framing in this scenario. An interesting finding is that in the scenario of the Wall Street game frame with communication people are more likely to change strategy compared to the no communication treatment.