Game Theory and Social Interactions: A Virtual Collaboratory for Teaching and Research

博弈论是成为经济学和相关社会科学中心理论的主要竞争者之一。从广义上讲，游戏是一种互动的情况下，每个人的动机取决于自己和他人的行动。游戏已经被用来模拟各种各样的环境，如集体行动问题，市场定价，拍卖，委员会投票，家庭决策，组织行为和合同法谈判。纳什均衡，自五十年前引入博弈论以来，一直是博弈论中的核心解决方案概念，是经济学中最常用的结构之一。博弈论在政治学和管理学中的应用日益广泛。 然而，它在许多非市场互动中的相关性受到标准解决方案概念所基于的极端理性假设的限制。该项目将汇集一组社会科学家，将行为和文化因素纳入战略互动的分析。对非经济动机的跨文化研究自然会得到对照实验的补充，其中一些实验将使用便携式无线实验室或基于网络的软件来连接不同地点的参与者。尽管博弈论在某些情况下已经得到了成功的应用（例如，FCC频谱拍卖的设计），包含行为元素和有限理性是必不可少的，以确保对广泛的社会互动的研究产生重大影响。该项目的一个目标是协调基于网络的教学，研究，并通过一个虚拟的合作实验室规划活动，参与者包括决定发布和分享其工作的调查人员和其他研究人员。该中心网站将包含一套有用的计算机程序和跨学科实验结果的数据库，其结构将促进进一步的理论工作，这些工作由仔细记录的经验数据指导。控制这些战略互动的基于网络的程序将供一般使用，并适用于课堂教学，适用于不同大学的大班和学生群体。在不同地点举行的一系列关于课堂实验的年度讲习班将促进跨学科传播教学和研究见解。

Game theory is one of the prime contenders for becoming the central theory in economics and related social sciences. Broadly speaking, a game is an interactive situation in which everyone's incentives depend on their own and others' actions. Games have been used to model a wide variety of environments, such as collective action problems, market pricing, auctions, committee voting, family decisions, organizational behavior, and contract law negotiations. The Nash equilibrium, which has been the central solution concept in game theory since its introduction about fifty years ago, is one of the most commonly used constructs in economics. Game theory is increasingly being applied in political science and management science. Its relevance in many non-market interactions, however, is limited by the extreme rationality assumptions that underlie standard solution concepts. This project will bring together a group of social scientists that incorporate behavioral and cultural factors into the analysis of strategic interactions. Cross-cultural studies of non-economic motivations are naturally supplemented with controlled experiments, some of which will be implemented using a portable wireless laboratory or web-based software to connect participants at different locations. Although game theory has been successfully applied in some settings (for example, the design of the FCC spectrum auctions), the inclusion of behavioral elements and limited rationality is essential to ensure a major impact on the study of a wide array of social interactions.One goal of this project is to coordinate web-based teaching, research, and programming activities through a virtual collaboratory involving the investigators and other researchers who decide to post and share their work. The central website will contain a set of useful computer programs and a data base of interdisciplinary experimental results, which will be structured to stimulate further theoretical work that is guided by carefully documented empirical regularities. The web-based programs that control these strategic interactions will be made available for general use and adapted for classroom instruction, for large classes and groups of students at different universities. A series of annual workshops on classroom experiments, held at different locations, will facilitate the dissemination of the teaching and research insights across disciplinary boundaries.