How do interacting decision-makers make strategic choices? If they're rational and can somehow predict each other's behavior, they may find themselves in a Nash equilibrium. However, humans display pervasive and systematic departures from rationality. They oft􀀵en do not conform to the...

Introduction: Why cognitive operations? -- Chapter 1: Approaches to cognitive modelling -- Chapter 2: Decisions under risk -- Chapter 3: Strategic interactions -- Chapter 4: Newsvendor problems -- Chapter 5: Decisions under uncertainty -- Chapter 6: Conclusions: The future of cognitive modelling...

Implicit contracts can mitigate moral hazard in labor, credit and product markets. The enforcement mechanism underlying an implicit contract is the threat of exclusion: the agent fears that he will lose future income if the principal breaks off the relationship. This threat may be very weak in...

Choosing between selfish and non-selfish behavior in real life is a repeated decision with varying time spans between repetitions. To learn more about the dynamics of altruistic behavior, we use repeated standard dictator experiments. The dynamics of prosocial behavior in these experiments...

This paper explores the reluctance of men (women) to acknowledge or recognise the work, comments, and claims of new ideas by other men (women) via widespread and intense demonstrations of indifference. Instances like desk rejections by journals by not allowing papers to reach a review stage,...

This chapter reviews recent experimental data testing game theory and behavioral models that have been inspired to explain those data. The models fall into four groups: in cognitive hierarchy or level- k models, the assumption of equilibrium is relaxed by assuming agents have beliefs about other...

Opting for an early Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) is regarded as one of the important career decisions for Public Sector Bank Employees. It is observed that in taking such a major decision, many employees do not act rationally thereby giving scope for regretting on their decisions later on....