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Abstract: Many everyday activities are habitual. Among the most common human activities is communication. This paper experimentally studies two questions. First, we provide evidence that habits affect strategic communication in an unfamiliar environment. Second, we contrast two mechanisms through which habits operate, preference shaping and inattention. By varying the frequency of communicating in the unfamiliar environment, we find an effect only when the unfamiliar environment occurs rarely. Thus, our results favor the inattention mechanism. Our findings highlight the importance of accounting for habits, especially when studying human behavior in infrequent situations.The file contains the raw decision data from the experiment as exported by the software.

摘要：日常生活中的诸多行为均带有习惯性，沟通作为人类最常见的活动之一亦不例外。本文通过实验探讨两个核心问题：其一，证实习惯会对陌生环境下的策略沟通产生影响；其二，对比了习惯发挥作用的两类机制——偏好塑造（preference shaping）与注意力疏忽（inattention）。通过调整陌生环境中的沟通频次，我们发现仅当该陌生环境出现频率较低时，习惯才会显现出影响，因此本研究结果更支持注意力疏忽机制。本研究结果凸显了考量习惯因素的重要性，尤其在针对低频次场景下人类行为的研究中。本文件包含实验软件导出的原始决策数据。