Looking Like a Million Dollars: Does Attractiveness Priming Increase Altruistic Behavior in Experimental Games? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The emergence of altruistic behavior constitutes one of the most widely studied problems in evolutionary biology and behavioral science. Multiple explanations have been proposed, most importantly including kin selection, reciprocity, and costly signaling
Julie Novakova +6 more
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An Experimental Investigation of Colonel Blotto Games [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 "This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions.
A. Botelho +52 more
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Incentive Magnitude Effects in Experimental Games: Bigger is not Necessarily Better
Games, 2018 In experimental games, task-related incentives are payments to experimental subjects that vary according to their strategy choices and the consequent outcomes of the games.
Briony D. Pulford +2 more
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The Uses of Teaching Games in Game Theory Classes and Some Experimental Games [PDF]
Simulation and Gaming, 2002 The use of lightly controlled games, primarily in classes in game theory, is discussed. The value of such games is considered from the viewpoint of both teaching and experimentation.
Martin Shubik
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The impact of constraints-based ball games on the control skills of children with developmental coordination disorder [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe purpose of this study is to enhance the development of control skills in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD). Guided by the principles of constraints-based task analysis, task constraints were manipulated to design and develop ...
Zimeng Guo, Wenguang Cheng
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The Role of Structural Characteristics in Problem Video Game Playing: A Review [PDF]
Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace, 2010 The structural characteristics of video games may play an important role in explaining why some people play video games to excess. This paper provides a review of the literature on structural features of video games and the psychological experience of ...
Daniel King +2 more
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Game‐XP: Action Games as Experimental Paradigms for Cognitive Science [PDF]
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2017 AbstractWhy games? How could anyone consider action games an experimental paradigm for Cognitive Science? In 1973, as one of three strategies he proposed for advancing Cognitive Science, Allen Newell exhorted us to “accept a single complex task and do all of it.” More specifically, he told us that rather than taking an “experimental psychology as usual
Wayne Douglas Gray
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Experimental Evidence on Iterated Reasoning in Games. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 We present experimental evidence on two forms of iterated reasoning in games, i.e. backward induction and interactive knowledge. Besides reliable estimates of the cognitive skills of the subjects, our design allows us to disentangle two possible ...
Sascha Grehl, Andreas Tutić
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Exacerbating the Tragedy of the Commons: Private Inefficient Outcomes and Peer Effect in Experimental Games with Fishing Communities. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2016 Maldonado JH, Moreno-Sanchez Rdel P.
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Behavioral influences on strategic interactions outcomes in game theory models [PDF]
Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, 2021 Traditional decision-making models assume full rationality of all actors. Nevertheless, the practice has shown that the behavior and choices of actors are influenced by many factors such as motives, beliefs, opinions, personal and social preferences, as ...
Kuzmanović Marija
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