We introduce the possibility that the receiver naively believes the sender’s message in a game of information transmission
with partially aligned objectives. We characterize an equilibrium in which the communication language is inflated, the action
taken is biased, and the information transmitted is more precise than in the benchmark fully-strategic model. We provide comparative
statics results with respect to the amount of asymmetric information, the proportion of naive receivers, and the size of the
sender’s bias. As the state space grows unbounded, the equilibrium converges to the fully-revealing equilibrium that results
in the limit case with unbounded state space.
Keywords Strategic information transmission - Naive audience - Bounded support
JEL Classification C72 - D72 - D83