Cognitive ability and the effect of strategic uncertainty

Nobuyuki Hanaki, Nicolas Jacquemet (), Stéphane Luchini and Adam Zylbersztejn ()

No 1529, Working Papers from Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon

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 ability are more sensitive to strategic uncertainty than those with lower cognitive ability.

Keywords: Strategic Uncertainty; Bounded Rationality; Robot; Experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C92 D83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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