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Ability to stop thinking and strategy choice in dilemma games
Author(s) -
Nishimura Kazuo,
Okada Akira,
Tobinaga Yoshikazu
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of economic theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1742-7363
pISSN - 1742-7355
DOI - 10.1111/j.1742-7363.2010.00152.x
Subject(s) - dilemma , prisoner's dilemma , psychology , dove , social psychology , telephone survey , strategic thinking , social dilemma , economics , advertising , marketing , epistemology , management , business , strategic planning , philosophy
In this study we analyze the relationship between individuals’ ability to stop thinking and their strategy choices in dilemma‐type games. The results show that individuals can be roughly divided into two groups, those with the ability to stop thinking and those without it, and that subjects with the ability to stop thinking generally have a tendency to express their opinions clearly. The results of the survey verify the relationship between the ability to stop thinking and the strategy choice in dilemma games. The dilemma games used in the survey were the hawk–dove game, the telephone game and the work game. In all of these, subjects were asked to choose between cooperative behavior and non‐cooperative behavior. The survey results show that subjects without the ability to stop thinking had a tendency to choose cooperative behavior.