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A NOTE ON REDUCED STRATEGIES AND COGNITIVE HIERARCHIES IN THE EXTENSIVE AND NORMAL FORM 0 0 2 13 3 4 9 20
A note on comparative ambiguity aversion and justi?fiability 0 1 1 47 3 8 11 90
Ambiguity Attitudes and Self-Confirming Equilibrium in Sequential Games 0 0 0 25 1 1 4 137
An Epistemic Characterisation of Extensive Form Rationalisability 0 0 0 93 0 0 2 854
An Epistemic Characterization of Extensive Form Rationalizability 0 0 0 60 3 3 5 387
Analysis of Information Feedback and Selfconfirming Equilibrium 0 0 1 71 3 7 9 120
Behavioral Equivalence of Extensive Game Structures 0 0 0 14 1 1 1 29
Behavioral Equivalence of Extensive Game Structures 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 15
Belief change, Rationality, and Strategic Reasoning in Sequential Games 0 0 0 26 0 1 6 80
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory 1 1 6 113 3 4 15 220
Belief-dependent Preferences and Reputation: Experimental Analysis of a Repeated Trust Game 0 0 1 129 2 3 7 146
Belief-dependent preferences and reputation: Experimental analysis of a repeated trust game 0 0 0 1 2 4 9 50
Beliefs, Plans, and Perceived Intentions in Dynamic Games 0 0 0 49 3 5 7 105
Buyer Power and Quality Improvement 0 0 0 171 4 4 8 676
Buyer Power and Quality Improvements 0 0 0 93 1 1 3 389
Context-Dependent Forward Induction Reasoning 0 0 0 47 0 1 3 152
Costly Contracting in a Long-Term Relationship 0 0 0 54 0 0 0 171
Costly Contracting in a Long-Term Relationship 0 0 0 112 1 1 4 529
Deception: The Role of Guilt 0 0 0 142 2 2 5 236
Disclosure of Belief-Dependent Preferences in a Trust Game 1 2 10 279 1 3 22 509
Dynamic Psychological Games 1 1 1 286 3 4 6 1,316
Dynamic Psychological Games 0 0 1 624 2 3 8 3,110
Epistemic Game Theory without Types Structures: An Application to Psychological Games 0 0 0 91 2 2 4 164
Frustration and Anger in Games 0 0 0 28 2 3 6 153
Frustration and Anger in Games 0 0 0 105 2 2 3 112
Frustration and Anger in the Ultimatum Game: An Experiment 0 1 2 87 4 9 14 267
Guilt and Inequality in Dictator Games 0 0 5 38 0 0 12 65
Guilt, Inequity, and Gender in a Dictator Game 0 2 20 63 5 8 39 120
Hierarchies of Conditional Beliefs and Interactive Epistemology in Dynamic Games 0 0 0 235 1 1 2 1,249
Imperfect Contracting 0 0 0 141 4 5 7 414
Incomplete Information Models of Guilt Aversion in the Trust Game 1 1 3 164 3 4 11 179
Incomplete Information Models of Guilt Aversion in the Trust Game 0 0 0 178 0 0 1 458
Incomplete-Information Models of Guilt Aversion in the Trust Game 0 0 0 0 2 3 9 27
Incorporating Belief-Dependent Motivation in Games Abstract:Psychological game theory (PGT), introduced by Geanakoplos, Pearce & Stacchetti (1989) and significantly generalized by Battigalli & Dufwenberg (2009), extends the standard gametheoretic framework by letting players' utility at endnodes depend on their interactive beliefs. While it is understood that a host of applications that model and/or test the role of emotional and other psychological forces find their home in PGT, the framework is abstract andcomprises complex mathematical objects, such as players' infinite hierarchies of beliefs. Thus,PGT provides little guidance on how to model specific belief-dependent motivations and usethem in game theoretic analysis. This paper takes steps to fill this gap. Some aspects are simplified - e.g., which beliefs matter - but others are refined and brought closer to applications by providing more structure. We start with belief-dependent motivations and showhow to embed them in game forms to obtain psychological games. We emphasize the role oftime and of the perception of players' intentions. We take advantage of progress made on the foundations of game theory to expand and improve on PGT solution concepts.JEL classification:C72; C73; D81; D82; D92. Keywords:Psychological game theory; Belief-dependent motivation; Intentions; Time;Rationalizability; Self-confirming equilibrium; Bayesian sequential equilibrium 0 0 0 108 3 4 8 313
Information Flows and Memory in Games 0 0 1 42 4 5 9 102
Interactive Beliefs and Forward Induction 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 281
Interactive Beliefs and Forward Induction 0 0 0 88 2 2 3 343
Interactive Epistemology and Solution Concepts for Games with Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 137 1 5 6 459
Interactive Epistemology in Simple Dynamic Games with a Continuum of Strategies 0 1 1 34 1 2 5 65
International agreements on product standard: an incomplete contracting theory 0 0 0 214 3 4 7 1,100
International agreements on product standards: an incomplete-contracting theory 0 0 0 134 2 4 4 621
Learning and Selfconfirming Equilibria in Network Games 0 0 0 19 0 1 2 42
Learning and Selfconfirming Equilibria in Network Games 0 0 0 26 1 2 2 32
M&A negotiations with limited information: how do opaque firms buy and get bought? 0 0 1 35 1 4 8 121
Mixed Extensions of Decision Problems under Uncertainty 0 1 1 84 0 3 4 195
On 'Reputation' Refinements with Heterogeneous Beliefs 0 0 0 28 0 0 1 59
Psychological Game Theory 0 1 2 383 5 10 22 860
RECENT RESULTS ON BELIEF, KNOWLEDGE AND THE EPISTEMIC FOUNDATIONS OF GAME THEORY 0 0 0 6 2 2 5 39
RECENT RESULTS ON BELIEF, KNOWLEDGE AND THE EPISTEMIC FOUNDATIONS OF GAME THEORY 0 0 0 412 1 2 3 957
Rationalizability in Incomplete Information Games 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 256
Rationalizable Bidding in General First-Price Auctions 0 0 1 138 1 2 5 594
Rationalization and Incomplete Information 0 0 2 290 1 1 6 619
Rationalization in Signaling Games: Theory and Applications 0 0 0 388 1 2 7 1,371
Selfconfirming Equilibrium and Model Uncertainty 0 0 0 128 4 5 8 256
Selfconfirming Equilibrium and Uncertainty 1 1 1 52 1 1 1 102
Sophisticated Reasoning, Learning, and Equilibrium in Repeated Games with Imperfect Feedback 0 0 0 18 1 1 4 29
Sources of Uncertainty and Subjective Prices 0 1 1 51 0 1 1 74
Strategies and interactive beliefs in dynamic games 1 1 2 91 1 1 3 251
Synchronic Information and Common Knowledge in Extensive Games 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 268
THE LOGIC OF BELIEF PERSISTENCY 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 17
The Epistemic Spirit of Divinity 0 0 0 14 0 2 3 12
Transparent Restrictions on Beliefs and Forward Induction Reasoning in Games with Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 94 3 5 5 252
Total Working Papers 6 15 66 6,608 104 171 392 22,239


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Note on Comparative Ambiguity Aversion and Justifiability 0 0 1 16 0 1 5 72
A Note on Stochastic Independence without Savage-Null Events 0 0 0 40 3 4 6 147
A framework for the analysis of self-confirming policies 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 4
Ambiguity attitudes and self-confirming equilibrium in sequential games 0 0 0 9 2 3 5 57
Analysis of information feedback and selfconfirming equilibrium 0 0 0 3 0 2 3 38
Behavioral equivalence of extensive game structures 0 0 0 4 0 2 4 28
Belief change, rationality, and strategic reasoning in sequential games 0 0 0 3 1 2 5 11
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory 2 2 10 49 5 10 38 115
Belief-dependent preferences and reputation: Experimental analysis of a repeated trust game 0 0 1 30 3 4 10 80
Beliefs, plans, and perceived intentions in dynamic games 0 0 2 8 2 2 6 49
Buyer power and quality improvements 0 0 0 80 2 2 5 274
Costly contracting in a long‐term relationship 0 0 1 57 0 3 6 195
Deception: The role of guilt 0 0 2 65 2 2 7 185
Dynamic Consistency and Imperfect Recall 0 0 0 47 0 0 1 119
Dynamic psychological games 1 1 8 426 3 9 26 1,422
Editors' Note 0 0 0 3 0 2 2 47
Editors' note 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 54
Epistemic game theory without types structures: An application to psychological games 0 0 2 16 1 2 11 64
Forward induction reasoning revisited 0 0 0 22 2 3 4 159
Four textbooks on game theory 0 1 2 109 0 2 3 340
Frustration and anger in the Ultimatum Game: An experiment 0 1 1 23 3 5 9 116
Frustration, aggression, and anger in leader-follower games 0 0 0 33 2 2 12 144
Guilt aversion and inequality in dictator games 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 5
Guilt in Games 0 0 0 257 1 1 6 858
Hierarchies of Conditional Beliefs and Interactive Epistemology in Dynamic Games 0 1 1 88 3 4 7 295
Incomplete-Information Models of Guilt Aversion in the Trust Game 0 0 2 16 1 2 6 77
Incorporating belief-dependent motivation in games 0 0 0 31 1 3 14 110
Information flows and memory in games 0 0 0 1 4 4 11 19
Interactive Epistemology and Solution Concepts for Games with Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 48 0 1 1 179
Interactive beliefs, epistemic independence and strong rationalizability 0 0 0 50 1 2 3 211
Interactive epistemology in games with payoff uncertainty 0 0 0 40 0 0 2 138
Interactive epistemology in simple dynamic games with a continuum of strategies 0 0 0 8 3 4 7 58
Learning and self-confirming long-run biases 0 0 1 5 3 5 15 43
Learning and selfconfirming equilibria in network games 0 0 1 3 1 2 7 15
Mixed extensions of decision problems under uncertainty 0 0 0 20 2 4 7 67
On "Reputation" Refinements with Heterogeneous Beliefs 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 235
On Rationalizability in Extensive Games 0 0 0 135 3 3 4 333
RATIONALIZATION IN SIGNALING GAMES: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS 0 0 0 14 1 3 4 57
Rationalizability in infinite, dynamic games with incomplete information 0 0 0 112 5 7 8 310
Rationalizable bidding in first-price auctions 0 0 0 91 1 2 2 209
Rationalization and Incomplete Information 0 0 2 271 4 6 11 926
Recent results on belief, knowledge and the epistemic foundations of game theory 0 0 0 136 5 8 11 348
Rigidity, Discretion, and the Costs of Writing Contracts 0 1 1 229 4 6 9 930
Self-Confirming Equilibrium and Model Uncertainty 0 0 0 48 1 2 4 281
Sophisticated reasoning, learning, and equilibrium in repeated games with imperfect feedback 0 0 0 0 1 5 5 5
Strategic Independence and Perfect Bayesian Equilibria 0 1 1 82 2 4 7 287
Strategic Rationality Orderings and the Best Rationalization Principle 0 0 0 61 2 2 2 236
Strong Belief and Forward Induction Reasoning 0 0 1 226 0 2 6 590
Synchronic information, knowledge and common knowledge in extensive games 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 119
The Logic of Belief Persistence 0 0 0 9 3 3 7 66
The epistemic spirit of divinity 0 0 0 0 3 7 9 9
Transparent Restrictions on Beliefs and Forward-Induction Reasoning in Games with Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 21 3 3 3 76
Total Journal Articles 3 8 40 3,066 92 161 354 10,812


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