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Comment author: David_J_Balan 15 September 2010 02:31:58AM 1 point [-]

There is a neat paper on this by Feltovich, Harbaugh, and To called "Too Cool for School? Signaling and Countersignaling."

http://www.jstor.org/pss/3087478

Comment author: toro 03 September 2011 05:48:43AM 1 point [-]

A little more from Harbaugh's home page http://www.bus.indiana.edu/riharbau#CS. Includes the Economist puff piece and an unedited version with some fun-but-unconvincing examples.

Fun fact: Harbaugh also made a searchable Chinese dictionary. (zhongwen.com)