In this paper, we introduce the concept of payoff distortion in the standard prisoner’s dilemma game when strategies are driven by psychological behaviors. This concept enables to take account each player’s assessment of the other player’s behavior and the asymmetry of information. We...

Two participants have to decide jointly, with the discussions preceding their choice being video/audiotaped. For two tasks, one with and one without strategic interaction, we refer to obvious reasoning styles as mental models. The videotaped discussions are analyzed according to which mental...