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 determine...

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...

We consider an n-person non-zero-sum non-cooperative game in normal form, where the strategy sets are some closed intervals of the real line. It is shown that if the pay-off functions are continuous on the whole space and if for each pay-off function the smallest local maximum in the strategy...