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How Individuals Make Their Decisions in Game Experiment

Visiting speaker
Past Talk
Xiongrui Xu
Ph.D. student at Complex Lab at UESTC
Jul 13, 2016
3:00 pm
Jul 13, 2016
3:00 pm
In-person
4 Thomas More St
London E1W 1YW, UK
The Roux Institute
Room
100 Fore Street
Portland, ME 04101
Network Science Institute
2nd floor
Network Science Institute
11th floor
177 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Network Science Institute
2nd floor
Room
58 St Katharine's Way
London E1W 1LP, UK

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Understanding the diversity of human behavior is a challenging problem and has drawn a wide attention from various fields. The recently discovered Zero-determinant (ZD) strategies provide a new framework to investigate human behavior pattern in a more controllable way through game experiment. We apply two types of ZD strategies in game experiment: the extortion strategy ensures the surplus of a player (the extortioner) always exceed his opponent’s by a fixed percentage, while the generosity strategy guarantee a player’s payoff to be never beyond his opponent. We recruited ~100 volunteers to play a repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma game and collected game behavior data, finding that under several simple mechanisms, some inherent patterns of decision-making behavior emerge in game experiments.

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Jul 13, 2016