Understanding the Other Through Social Roles

Mamoru Kaneko () and J. Jude Kline ()
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J. Jude Kline: School of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia

International Game Theory Review (IGTR), 2015, vol. 17, issue 01, 1-31

Abstract: Inductive game theory has been developed to explore the origin of beliefs of a person from his accumulated experiences of a game situation. It has been restricted to a person's view of the structure not including another person's thoughts. In this paper, we explore the experiential origin of one's view of the other's beliefs about the game situation, especially about the other's payoffs. We restrict our exploration to a 2-role (strategic) game, which has been recurrently played by two people with occasional role-switching. Each person accumulates experiences of both roles, and these experiences become the source for his transpersonal view about the other. Reciprocity in the sense of role-switching is crucial for deriving his own and the other's beliefs. We also consider how a person can use these views for his behavior revision, and we define an equilibrium called anintrapersonal coordination equilibrium. Based on this, we show that cooperation will emerge as the degree of reciprocity increases.

Keywords: Inductive game theory; role-switching; reciprocity; strategic game; C70; D80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B4 C0 C6 C7 D5 D7 M2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1142/S0219198915400058

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