play, imitation, reinforcement learning, and a trial & error process. We test whether subjects try to influence those … and that all learning algorithms are subject to exploitation with the notable exception of imitation. The experiment was …

We introduce a generalized theoretical approach to study imitation models and subject the models to rigorous … experimental testing. In our theoretical analysis we find that the different predictions of previous imitation models are due to … the generalized imitation model predicts the differences between treatments well. The data also provide support for …