Playing the Wrong Game: An Experimental Analysis of Relational Complexity and Strategic Misrepresentation
Playing the Wrong Game: An Experimental Analysis of Relational Complexity and Strategic Misrepresentation
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玩错游戏：关系复杂性和战略误传的实验分析
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.806964
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发表时间：
2008
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通讯作者：
M. Warglien
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作者：
Giovanna Devetag;M. Warglien
有人提出，玩家经常产生简化的和/或错误指定的战略决策的心理模型[Kreps，D.，1990。博弈论与经济建模。牛津大学。出版社，牛津大学]。我们认为，游戏中玩家偏好的关系结构是认知复杂性的来源，并可能是这种简化的重要驱动因素。基于单调性和投射性的性质，给出了二人博弈中序结构的分类，并给出了实验中受试者构建不同关系复杂性的博弈的表示，然后根据这些表示进行博弈。实验结果表明，关系复杂性很重要。更复杂的游戏更难呈现，而这一难度似乎与短期记忆能力有关。此外，大多数错误的表述比正确的表述更简单。最后，曲解游戏的受试者的行为与这种表征一致，这表明在许多策略设置中，个体可能会基于简化和错误的前提而采取最优行动。
It has been suggested that players often produce simplified and/or misspecified mental models of strategic decisions [Kreps, D., 1990. Game Theory and Economic Modeling. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford]. We submit that the relational structure of players' preferences in a game is a source of cognitive complexity, and may be an important driver of such simplifications. We provide a classification of order structures in two-person games based on the properties of monotonicity and projectivity, and present experiments in which subjects construct representations of games of different relational complexity and subsequently play the games according to these representations. Experimental results suggest that relational complexity matters. More complex games are harder to represent, and this difficulty seems correlated with short term memory capacity. In addition, most erroneous representations are simpler than the correct ones. Finally, subjects who misrepresent the games behave consistently with such representations, suggesting that in many strategic settings individuals may act optimally on the ground of simplified and mistaken premises.
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发表时间：
2017
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作者：
M. Just;P. Carpenter
通讯作者：
M. Just;P. Carpenter