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Social motives are frequently used to explain deviations from selfishness in non-strategic settings such as the Dictator Game. Previous research has mainly focused on two-player games; the workings of social motives in multiplayer Dictator Games are less well understood. A core feature of...
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Individual behavioral differences in humans have been linked to measurable differences in their mental activities, including differences in their implicit motives. In humans, individual differences in the strength of motives such as power, achievement and affiliation have been shown to have a...
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Standard equilibrium concepts in game theory find it difficult to explain the empirical evidence from a large number of …
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game theory predictions. However, those models are short of providing a general theory of behavior in economic interactions …. In two previous articles, we proposed a rational theory of behavior in non-cooperative games, termed Economic Harmony … theory (EH). In EH, we retained the rationality principle but modified the players' utilities by defining them as functions …
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Delegating bargaining to an intermediary agent is common practice in many situations. The proposer, while not actively bargaining, sets constraints on the intermediary agent's offer. We study ultimatum games where proposers delegate bargaining to an intermediary agent by setting boundaries on...
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Focusing on sellers’ pricing decisions and the ensuing seller-buyer interactions, we report an experiment on dynamic … deviations from equilibrium benchmarks on both sides of the market. Specifically, in our experiment the sellers are boundedly …
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This paper is a partial review of the literature on ‘social preferences'. There are empirical findings that convincingly demonstrate the existence of social preferences, but there are also studies that indicate their fragility. So how robust are social preferences, and how exactly are they...
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predictions that agents make about the behavior of other individuals. Cognitive hierarchy theory provides a framework to model the … consequences of forecasting accuracy that has proven to fit data from certain types of game theory experiments, such as Keynesian … cognitive hierarchy theory. …
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decision theory by training 69 artificial intelligence models on a dataset of 7080 human decisions in extensive form games. The … order to improve their own performance during a strategic interaction. We use human game theory data for training and … decision makers, a crucial aspect of our 'Theory of Mind'. We show that key psychological features, such as the Weber …
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We conduct an artefactual field experiment to compare the individual preferences and propensity to cooperate of three …
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