Apologies which are perceived as insincere cannot promote reconciliation. Various literatures identify successful apologies with their literal content. We provide a signalling model which can explain evidence in two recent field experiments on apologies, where blindness is prima facie inconsistent with an equilibrium interpretation of play.
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