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We study the evolution of strategic psychological capabilities in a population of interacting agents. Specifically,we consider agentswhich are either blind orwithmindsight, and either transparent or opaque. An agent with mindsight can observe the psychological makeup of a transparent agent,...
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resource, and there is uncertainty about who will win the resource if they choose to compete. Players have different confidence … know her opponent's confidence level. We characterize the evolutionarily stable equilibrium, represented by players …' strategies and distribution of confidence levels. Under different informational environments, a majority of players are …
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In this paper, an indirect evolutionary version of the game of trust is studied. A population consisting of trustworthy and exploitive players is assumed. Players are chosen randomly from the population and are matched with either strangers or players they know in order to play the game of...
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This paper provides an analytical model to study the co-evolution of trust and trustworthiness in a game-theoretic framework. Trust reflects an agent’s belief that other agents cooperate in a two-stage prisoner’s dilemma game. Altruist agents receive a utility from their opponents’...
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In this paper, we address the concept of trust by combining (i) the self-reported trust and belief in trustworthiness of others from a general unpaid questionnaire, (ii) choices made in a social valuation task designed to measure subjects' distributional preferences, (iii) strategies submitted...
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This study investigates the effects of unfair enforcement of institutional rules on public good contributions, personal and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce rule compliance compared to fair institutions. However,...
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This study investigates the effects of unfair enforcement of institutional rules on public good contributions, personal and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce rule compliance compared to fair institutions. However,...
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This paper studies an economic contest with two participants, who are overconfident in their own relative abilities. We examine two different sources of overconfidence, overestimation of one's own ability and underestimation of the rival's ability, and compare the behavioral consequences of each...
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