Rules based policies, and Intelligence in Strategic Behavior

奖项摘要：基于规则的政策和战略行为研究中的智力表明，决策，特别是在涉及战略互动的情况下，随着智力水平、偏好和个性的不同而不同。然而，没有一个理论框架来组织这些差异。这项研究项目将使用实验方法来开发和测试关于策略推理和行为的认知理论。这项研究将结合几个研究领域的见解，开发一种基于规则的理论，解释智力在战略决策中的作用。由此产生的理论将进行实验测试，以包括战略决策过程中大脑功能的fMRI数据。了解智力如何影响战略，从而影响社会行为是政策指导的基本投入，特别是在教育中。有令人信服的证据表明，认知技能影响个人在工作和学校中的表现，也影响更广泛的他们在社会中的行为，如何合作，如何决定遵循规范，以及如何寻找合作行为。了解这些结果在多大程度上可以通过适当的教育政策来改变，不仅会提高个人的表现，还会对建立一个有凝聚力和可持续发展的社会产生实质性的积极影响。这项研究将为建立一个可信的、描述性的、认知的策略推理和行为模型奠定基础，并进行实验测试。这个模型是理解智力如何在社会互动中影响个人行为的重要第一步，特别是在重复互动中。这项研究将结合理论(源自博弈论、认知心理学、复杂性理论和神经网络等多学科)和实验方法，使用行为和功能成像工具。从学术研究的角度来看，与博弈论中现有的文献相比，本研究的预测将构成一个创新，甚至相对于自动机理论等更具描述性的准确推理模型而言也是如此。这些预测也将是认知心理学关于规则的专门研究的重要创新，例如，因为目前研究的规则是由受试者产生的，而不是由实验者分配的。了解智力如何影响战略行为，从而影响社会行为，将为政策，特别是教育政策提供指导。了解适当的教育政策可以在多大程度上改变这种影响，将对建立一个可持续、有凝聚力的社会产生重大和积极的影响。

Award Abstract: Rules based Policies, and Intelligence in Strategic Behavior Studies show that decision making, especially in situations involving strategic interaction, varies with the level of intelligence, preferences, and personality. However, there is no theoretical framework to organize these differences. This research project will use experimental methods to develop and test a cognitive theory of strategic reasoning and behavior. This research will combine insights from several fields of study to develop a rules-based theory that explains the role of intelligence in strategic decision making. The resulting theory will be tested experimentally to include fMRI data on brain functioning during strategic decision making. Understanding how intelligence affects strategic and thus, social behavior is essential input to policy guidance, especially in education. There is convincing evidence that cognitive skills affect how individuals perform on the job, in schools, but also more broadly how they behave in society, cooperate, decide to follow norms, and look for cooperative behavior. Understanding how much of these outcomes can be modified through appropriate educational policies will not only improve individual performance but will also have a substantial and positive effect on building a cohesive and sustainable society.This research will provide the foundation for a plausible, descriptive, cognitive model of strategic reasoning and behavior, and test it experimentally. This model is an essential first step to understanding how Intelligence affects behavior of individuals in social interactions, particularly in repeated interactions. The research will combine theory (derived from multiple disciplines such as game theory, cognitive psychology, complexity theory and neural networks) and experimental methods, using both behavioral and functional imaging tools. From academic research point of view, the predictions of this research will constitute an innovation compared to existing literature in Game Theory, even with respect to more descriptively accurate models of reasoning such as automata theories. The predictions will also be important innovations with respect to specialized research in Cognitive Psychology on rules, for example, because the rules currently studied are produced by the subject, rather than assigned by the experimenter. Understanding how Intelligence affects strategic and thus social behavior will offer guidance to policy, particularly education policy. Understanding how much of the effect can be modified by appropriate education policies will have a substantial and positive effect on building a sustainable, cohesive society.