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Hidden games : the surprising power of game theory to explain irrational human behavior

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  • Temps de fonctionnement: 10:41 hrs
    Voix de: Gary Tiedemann
    Publisher:
    Basic Books, 2022
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Voix de: Gary Tiedemann
    Publisher:
    Hachette Book Group, 2022
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Temps de fonctionnement: 10:41 hrs
    Voix de: Gary Tiedemann
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Contributor: Tiedemann, Gary
    Date:
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    2022
    Summary:

    Moshe Hoffman is a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics Group and lecturer at Harvard's department of economics. His research focuses on using game theory, models of learning and evolution, and experimental methods to decipher the motives that shape our social behavior, preferences, and ideologies. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Erez Yoeli is a research associate at MIT's Sloan School of Management, where he directs the Applied Cooperation Team (ACT). His research focuses on altruism: understanding how it works and how to promote it. Yoeli collaborates with governments, nonprofits, and companies to apply the lessons of this research towards addressing real-world challenges like increasing energy conservation, improving antibiotic adherence, reducing smoking in public places, and promoting philanthropy. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Contents:
    • Introduction
    • Learning
    • Three distinctions
    • Sex Ratios: The gold standard for using game theory
    • Hawk-Dove and Rights
    • Costly Signaling and Aesthetics
    • Buried Signals and Modesty
    • Evidence Games and Spin
    • Motivated Reasoning
    • The repeated Prisoner's Dilemma and Altruism
    • Norms
    • Categorical Norms
    • Higher-Order Beliefs
    • Subgame Perfection and Justice
    • What's Next?
    Original Publisher: New York, Basic Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781668610053, 1668610051