Abstract
In this study, the process of induction of mutual cooperation behavior in workers in a remote work environment (Telework) was examined experimentally. In the experiment, the gambling task developed by Payen was used, and the subjects were not given the honor information of their partners. In addition, the subjects and their partners were kept in different rooms in order to avoid the influence of conversation. The subjects were only informed about which button their partners pushed. The number of trials was 100. The results show that cooperation behavior was induced in about 20 trials. Even if honor information of the partner was not known by a subject, cooperation behavior was induced by the information about which button the partner pushed. In the control experiments, the subjects were matched with a computer. Results of the control experiments suggest that cooperation behavior was not induced when the human subject was matched with a computer. This suggests that an exchange of information that a human being cannot express by a word (non-verbal information) was necessary for induction of cooperation behavior.
