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Social Reciprocity
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004
We define social reciprocity as the act of demonstrating one's disapproval, at some personal cost, for the violation of widely-held norms (e.g., don't free ride). Social reciprocity differs from standard notions of reciprocity because social reciprocators intervene whenever a norm is violated...
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Competitive targeted marketing
Jo, Hang-Hyun; Kim, Jeong-Yoo - 2012
In this paper, we consider two firms diffusing incompatible technologies and their decision of consumer targeting. The technology adoption is made in two steps. First, once the firms sell their products to their respective targeted consumer, the technology is diffused successively by...
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Evolution of theories of mind
Mohlin, Erik - 2010
This paper studies the evolution of peoples' models of how other people think - their theories of mind. First, this is … results are extended to a model of learning, in which type k plays a k times iterated best response the average of past play …
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Loss of commitment? An evolutionary analysis of Bagwell's example
Oechssler, Jörg; Schlag, Karl H. - 1997
of evolutionary and learning processes in this game. Only the continuous best response dynamic uniquely selects the …
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The role of implicit motives in strategic decision-making: Computational models of motivated learning and the evolution of motivated agents
Merrick, Kathryn - In: Games 6 (2015) 4, pp. 604-636
affiliation-motivated individuals engaged in game-play. The first model captures learning by motivated agents during strategic … interactions. The second model captures the evolution of a society of motivated agents. It is demonstrated that misperception, when …
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Adjustment Dynamics and Rational Play in Games
Swinkels, Jeroen M. - 1991
game theory, simple models of imitation, models of experimentation and adjustment, and some simple learning dynamics. We …
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Global power shifts and the future of democracy: An evolutionary approach, with special attention to China
Owen, John M. - 2016
general questions concerning the regional and global waxing and waning of domestic regime types. Evolution's claims about the … standard international diffusion mechanisms of competition, learning, and emulation, but also that of coercion. The concepts of … co-evolution and niche construction are crucial: an agent may modify its environment such that one or more traits of that …
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Information, evolution and utility
Swinkels, Jeroen M.; Samuelson, Larry - In: Theoretical Economics 1 (2006) 1, pp. 119-142
Human utility embodies a number of seemingly irrational aspects. The leading example in this paper is that utilities often depend on the presence of salient unchosen alternatives. Our focus is to understand <i>why</i> an evolutionary process might optimally lead to such seemingly dysfunctional features...
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The evolution of decision and experienced utilities
Robson, Arthur J.; Samuelson, Larry - In: Theoretical Economics 6 (2011) 3, pp. 311-339
utilities may be the solution to an evolutionary design problem. We examine a setting in which evolution designs agents with …
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Dynamics in stochastic evolutionary models
Levine, David Knudsen; Modica, Salvatore - In: Theoretical Economics 11 (2016) 1, pp. 89-131
the evolution of conventions. We give an application to the fall of hegemonies in the evolutionary theory of institutions …
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