Herein we explore whether the social psychology theory of commitment via a truth-telling oath can reduce coordination failure. Using a classic sequential coordination game, we ask all players to sign voluntarily a truth-telling oath before playing the game with cheap-talk communication. Three results emerge with commitment-via-the-oath: (1) coordination increased by nearly 50 percent; (2) sende...

dispute between contractor and broker over “the type and attribute of the wage” in contract leads to a controversy which many imamiehreligious experts believe that has no result but “bilateral oath-taking”. most important criteria of selecting bilateral oath-taking are: simultaneous positioning of contractor and broker in accuser and denier position, lack of common ground between the two sides ...

Health professionals have wrestled with their ethical guiding principles for millennia. The sonorous oath of Hippocrates (470-410 BC) has echoed through the ages and undergone many revisions to devise an oath of ethics relevant to modern health practice. In some cases, there is no longer an oath, but a booklet or manual to guide the practitioner (1-3). There are specialists in medical ethics, i...

Over the past thirty years questions have been raised, and still remain, as to proper scope of sovereign's title, Defender Faith, in a multi-faith society. Such are not only politically important but legally important, especially they raise affecting Church England. Those need be addressed before any suggested changes actually implemented. These different from those that arise relation Coronati...

in the legal proceeding, should an oathbe taken in case oflack of proof on the part of plaintiff, it would causeextinction of the claim of the plaintiff. now, if it wasproved that the oath has been false when the definitejudgment has been issued, we encounter the problem ofunlawfulness of reversal of judgment of the judge injurisprudence and that of validity of what is judged in theiranian and ...