Cognitive Ability and the Effect of Strategic Uncertainty

Nobuyuki Hanaki, Nicolas Jacquemet (), Stéphane Luchini and Adam Zylberstejn ()
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Adam Zylberstejn: Université de Lyon

No 1458, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

Abstract: How is one’s cognitive ability related to the way one responds to strategic uncertainty? We address this question by conducting a set of experiments in simple 2 x 2 dominance solvable coordination games. Our experiments involve two main treatments: one in which two human subjects interact, and another in which one human subject interacts with a computer program whose behavior is known. By making the behavior of the computer perfectly predictable, the latter treatment eliminates strategic uncertainty. We find that subjects with higher cognitive abilities are more sensitive to strategic uncertainty than those with lower cognitive abilities.

Keywords: strategic uncertainty; robot; bounded rationality; Experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C92 D83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2014-12-16
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