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| Tekijä: | Cooper, D.J. Kagel, J.H. |
| Otsikko: | The role of context and team play in cross-game learning |
| Lehti: | Journal of the European Economic Association
2009 : SEP, VOL. 7:5, p. 1101-1139 |
| Asiasana: | economics psychology game theory strategy |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | There are many differences between economics and psychology experiments. One of them is that economists favor abstract context while psychologists favor meaningful context. This study investigates the effects of meaningful versus abstract context on cross-game learning in a signaling game experiment. With individual decision makers, meaningful context promotes positive cross-game learning in moving from a pooling equilibrium to a separating equilibrium. Abstract context yields negative cross-game learning. In 1x1 games, a change in the meaningful context which accompanies "superficial" changes in the game stalls the learning process compared to an abstract context that does not change. The study reveals also that with two-person teams the same change in meaningful context has no disruptive effect on strategic play. |
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