Two-person Cooperative Games

Anatol Rapoport

Chapter 15 in Decision Theory and Decision Behaviour, 1998, pp 315-336 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The dilemma generated by the bifurcation of ‘rationality’ into individual and collective rationality vanishes once collective rationality is regarded as the basis of rational decision-making by two or more actors. Psychologically, this paradigm reflects at least a partial fusion of the players’ consciousnesses. We can surmise that to the extent that it makes sense to speak of consciousness of non-humans, this fusion is complete in social insects, for example, Possibly such fusion takes place also in some mammals or birds, animals known to act ‘altruistically’ toward their young and toward kin, sometimes even toward non-kin, of their species. We humans sometimes experience such fusion and call it ‘empathy’. Empathy manifests itself in the anguish we sometimes feel when we witness the suffering of another.

Keywords: Feasible Region; Cooperative Game; Security Level; Game Matrix; Interpersonal Comparison (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230377769_16

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