How does experience influence game reasoning?: a survey for repeated prisoner’s dilemma

This dissertation reviews past literature on belief updating/belief-based learning and sophistication (reasoning), links the two models with recent experimental findings in repeated prisoner’s dilemma, supergame strategies, attention and incentives, and tries to answer how these two models interact...

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Main Author: Fang, Tong
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/72101/
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description This dissertation reviews past literature on belief updating/belief-based learning and sophistication (reasoning), links the two models with recent experimental findings in repeated prisoner’s dilemma, supergame strategies, attention and incentives, and tries to answer how these two models interact with each other with experience. These two models have good performance in explaining part of the repeated games separately but fail to a smooth and united explanation. By re-examining the literature from the perspective of the information source to generate different types of belief, elements of two models can be reconciled into one. Recent new findings in attention and incentives also contribute to the evolution of sophistication, which was not captured by the sophistication models. This helps to examine sophistication models in a dynamic way and makes both models comparable from the dynamic point of view.
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spelling nottingham-721012023-07-31T04:40:16Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/72101/ How does experience influence game reasoning?: a survey for repeated prisoner’s dilemma Fang, Tong This dissertation reviews past literature on belief updating/belief-based learning and sophistication (reasoning), links the two models with recent experimental findings in repeated prisoner’s dilemma, supergame strategies, attention and incentives, and tries to answer how these two models interact with each other with experience. These two models have good performance in explaining part of the repeated games separately but fail to a smooth and united explanation. By re-examining the literature from the perspective of the information source to generate different types of belief, elements of two models can be reconciled into one. Recent new findings in attention and incentives also contribute to the evolution of sophistication, which was not captured by the sophistication models. This helps to examine sophistication models in a dynamic way and makes both models comparable from the dynamic point of view. 2023-07-31 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/72101/1/MResDissertation_TongFang.pdf Fang, Tong (2023) How does experience influence game reasoning?: a survey for repeated prisoner’s dilemma. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham. Prisoner's dilemma game; Reasoning; Belief change; Incentive (Psychology)
spellingShingle Prisoner's dilemma game; Reasoning; Belief change; Incentive (Psychology)
Fang, Tong
How does experience influence game reasoning?: a survey for repeated prisoner’s dilemma
title How does experience influence game reasoning?: a survey for repeated prisoner’s dilemma
title_full How does experience influence game reasoning?: a survey for repeated prisoner’s dilemma
title_fullStr How does experience influence game reasoning?: a survey for repeated prisoner’s dilemma
title_full_unstemmed How does experience influence game reasoning?: a survey for repeated prisoner’s dilemma
title_short How does experience influence game reasoning?: a survey for repeated prisoner’s dilemma
title_sort how does experience influence game reasoning?: a survey for repeated prisoner’s dilemma
topic Prisoner's dilemma game; Reasoning; Belief change; Incentive (Psychology)
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/72101/