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The strategy method risks conflating confusion with a social preference for conditional cooperation in public goods games

Burton-Chellew, Maxwell N.; D'Amico, Victoire; Guérin, … - In: Games 13 (2022) 6, pp. 1-10

The strategy method is often used in public goods games to measure an individual's willingness to cooperate depending on the level of cooperation by their groupmates (conditional cooperation). However, while the strategy method is informative, it risks conflating confusion with a desire for fair...

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Psychology of game playing : introduction to a special issue

Colman, Andrew M.; Pulford, Briony D. - In: Games 6 (2015) 4, pp. 677-684

devoted to investigating how human decision makers with bounded rationality choose strategies in interactive decisions …

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Salience and strategy choice in 2 × 2 games

Leland, Jonathan W.; Schneider, Mark - In: Games 6 (2015) 4, pp. 521-559

We present a model of boundedly rational play in single-shot 2 × 2 games. Players choose strategies based on the perceived salience of their own payoffs and, if own-payoff salience is uninformative, on the perceived salience of their opponent's payoffs. When own payoffs are salient, the model's...

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Assessing others' risk-taking behavior from their affective states : experimental evidence using a stag hunt game

Kausel, Edgar E. - In: Games 8 (2017) 1, pp. 1-13

Researchers are increasingly exploring the role of emotions in interactive decision‐making. Recent theories have focused on the interpersonal effects of emotions-the influence of the decisionmaker’s expressed emotions on observers’ decisions and judgments. In this paper, we examine whether...

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Guessing the game : an individual's awareness and assessment of a game's existence

Kostelic, Katarina - In: Games 11 (2020) 2/17, pp. 1-28

In everyday life, games begin inconspicuously, leaving an individual to stumble upon their assessment of a situation. An unaware individual is unlikely to exhibit strategic behavior in a given situation, which highlights the importance of awareness examination. The purpose of this exploratory...

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Strategic behavior of moralists and altruists

Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen W. - In: Games 8 (2017) 3, pp. 1-21

Does altruism and morality lead to socially better outcomes in strategic interactions than selfishness? We shed some … material payoff if others were to act like himself or herself. It turns out that both altruism and morality may improve or … worsen equilibrium outcomes, depending on the nature of the game. Not surprisingly, both altruism and morality improve the …

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Ethics, morality, and game theory

Alfano, Mark; Rusch, Hannes; Uhl, Matthias - In: Games 9 (2018) 2/20, pp. 1-4

Ethics is a field in which the gap between words and actions looms large. Game theory and the empirical methods it inspires look at behavior instead of the lip service people sometimes pay to norms. We believe that this special issue comprises several illustrations of the fruitful application of...

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CEO bias and product substitutability in oligopoly games

Schroeder, Elizabeth; Tremblay, Carol Horton; Tremblay, … - In: Games 13 (2022) 2, pp. 1-23

We investigate why a firm might purposefully hire a chief executive officer (CEO) who under- or over-estimates the degree of substitutability between competing products. This counterintuitive result arises in imperfect competition because CEO bias can affect rival behavior and the intensity of...

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Backward induction versus forward induction reasoning

Perea, Andrés - In: Games 1 (2010) 3, pp. 168-188

dynamic games. To that purpose, we take the concepts of common belief in future rationality (Perea [1]) and extensive form …

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Sequential rationality in continuous no-limit poker

Norman, Thomas W. L. - In: Games 5 (2014) 2, pp. 92-96

unlimited bet size is modified to incorporate sequential rationality. …

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