Strategic interactions Flashcards
Some scholars imagined that in the prisoners’ dilemma that could be considered a small probability delta of collaboration between the burglars
True, 9
In an indefinitely repeated prisoners’ dilemma, the best strategy is TIT-FOR-TAT
True, 19
In the tit for tat strategy you need to start with cooperation
True, 11
Tit for tat is a winning strategy because it’s forgiver
True, 11
Tit for tat is a winning strategy because it’s unforgiving
False, 11
Andreoli and miller experiment?????????????
Andreoli and miller’s experiment showed that participants were not altruistic
False, 15
Andreoli and miller’s experiment showed that participants are not strategically very sophisticated
True, 15
The typical payoff function of a public good game is
Initial endowment minus subject’s private contribution plus summation of others’ contribution
False, you must consider the productivity factor also, 17
Conditional cooperation means that people condition their contribution level to the contribution of others
True, 18
Conditional cooperation is a preference per se
False, 18
Conditional cooperation might be given because of inequity aversion
True
Conditional cooperation is due to reciprocity
False, other factors exist, 18
In the conditional cooperation game, if a person is the last to decide, they will contribute zero despite any other behavior from the previous players
True, 21
In games characterized by coordination, players optimize their benefits by choosing strategies that are different from one another
False, 28
In the chicken game it is important to let the other think that you will never decide to steer
True, 32
In international history, Nixon played the chicken game with URSS
True
In the battle of the sexes, if both agents can communicate, the output is worse that if only one can
True, 35
In the stag-hunt game, the hare strategy is largely majoritan
True, 40
In the stag-hunt game, two way communication is raising the output more than one way communication
True
Social preferences can be categorized in pro-social preferences or anti-social preferences
True, 42
A subject is characterized bu pure altruism if she derives pleasure from others’ well-being
True, 46
Impure altruism means that you give away because the others’ pleasure gives pleasure to you (warm-glow)
True, 46
Welfare-enhacing preferences ???
Inequirt aversion???????????’
Spite is contrary to equity
False, contrary to altruism, 50
The ultimatum game shows well nastiness
False, it is spite, 53
Nastiness in observed in the joy-of-destruction game
True, 53
The capucine monkeys experiment shows envy
True, 54
Experiments on deception shows that there are honest people
True, 57
When people do deception, they might not optimize their behavior
True, 57
Experiments showed that people care more about fairness than about their social image
False, 59
