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A NOTE ON REDUCED STRATEGIES AND COGNITIVE HIERARCHIES IN THE EXTENSIVE AND NORMAL FORM 0 0 0 13 3 9 19 32
A note on comparative ambiguity aversion and justi?fiability 0 0 1 47 1 6 19 99
Ambiguity Attitudes and Self-Confirming Equilibrium in Sequential Games 0 0 0 25 3 7 10 145
An Epistemic Characterisation of Extensive Form Rationalisability 0 0 0 93 1 5 6 860
An Epistemic Characterization of Extensive Form Rationalizability 0 0 0 60 1 7 11 394
Analysis of Information Feedback and Selfconfirming Equilibrium 0 0 1 71 2 7 19 130
Behavioral Equivalence of Extensive Game Structures 0 0 0 12 0 4 5 20
Behavioral Equivalence of Extensive Game Structures 0 0 0 14 0 2 4 32
Belief change, Rationality, and Strategic Reasoning in Sequential Games 0 0 0 26 2 12 18 93
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory 1 1 6 115 6 13 28 238
Belief-dependent Preferences and Reputation: Experimental Analysis of a Repeated Trust Game 0 0 1 129 2 6 16 157
Belief-dependent preferences and reputation: Experimental analysis of a repeated trust game 0 0 0 1 1 5 13 57
Beliefs, Plans, and Perceived Intentions in Dynamic Games 0 0 0 49 1 10 18 116
Buyer Power and Quality Improvement 0 0 0 171 2 8 19 689
Buyer Power and Quality Improvements 0 0 0 93 0 3 5 392
Context-Dependent Forward Induction Reasoning 0 0 0 47 2 9 14 163
Costly Contracting in a Long-Term Relationship 0 1 1 113 1 4 10 535
Costly Contracting in a Long-Term Relationship 0 0 0 54 1 5 9 180
Deception: The Role of Guilt 0 0 0 142 0 8 17 249
Disclosure of Belief-Dependent Preferences in a Trust Game 0 0 4 279 1 6 17 518
Dynamic Psychological Games 0 0 1 624 4 12 23 3,125
Dynamic Psychological Games 0 0 1 286 0 1 10 1,320
Epistemic Game Theory without Types Structures: An Application to Psychological Games 0 1 1 92 1 11 14 175
Frustration and Anger in Games 0 0 0 28 2 4 11 158
Frustration and Anger in Games 0 0 0 105 1 6 10 119
Frustration and Anger in the Ultimatum Game: An Experiment 0 0 1 87 5 17 35 289
Guilt and Inequality in Dictator Games 0 0 0 38 1 6 14 75
Guilt, Inequity, and Gender in a Dictator Game 2 5 16 68 4 17 44 139
Hierarchies of Conditional Beliefs and Interactive Epistemology in Dynamic Games 0 0 0 235 2 7 11 1,258
Imperfect Contracting 0 0 0 141 1 4 12 419
Incomplete Information Models of Guilt Aversion in the Trust Game 0 0 2 164 1 5 13 184
Incomplete Information Models of Guilt Aversion in the Trust Game 0 0 0 178 1 7 7 465
Incomplete-Information Models of Guilt Aversion in the Trust Game 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 29
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 2 5 14 320
Information Flows and Memory in Games 0 0 1 42 1 8 19 114
Interactive Beliefs and Forward Induction 0 0 0 88 1 3 7 348
Interactive Beliefs and Forward Induction 0 0 0 1 0 8 10 290
Interactive Epistemology and Solution Concepts for Games with Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 137 1 7 16 469
Interactive Epistemology in Simple Dynamic Games with a Continuum of Strategies 0 0 1 34 3 5 9 71
International agreements on product standard: an incomplete contracting theory 0 1 2 216 1 5 15 1,110
International agreements on product standards: an incomplete-contracting theory 0 0 0 134 1 2 8 625
Learning and Selfconfirming Equilibria in Network Games 0 0 0 26 2 9 13 43
Learning and Selfconfirming Equilibria in Network Games 0 0 0 19 3 5 7 47
M&A negotiations with limited information: how do opaque firms buy and get bought? 0 0 0 35 1 4 10 125
Mixed Extensions of Decision Problems under Uncertainty 0 0 1 84 3 8 14 205
On 'Reputation' Refinements with Heterogeneous Beliefs 0 0 0 28 1 2 4 63
Psychological Game Theory 0 0 1 383 11 23 40 884
RECENT RESULTS ON BELIEF, KNOWLEDGE AND THE EPISTEMIC FOUNDATIONS OF GAME THEORY 0 0 0 6 2 12 18 52
RECENT RESULTS ON BELIEF, KNOWLEDGE AND THE EPISTEMIC FOUNDATIONS OF GAME THEORY 0 0 0 412 0 2 4 959
Rationalizability in Incomplete Information Games 0 0 0 1 0 2 5 259
Rationalizable Bidding in General First-Price Auctions 0 0 0 138 2 6 11 601
Rationalization and Incomplete Information 0 0 1 290 1 10 13 629
Rationalization in Signaling Games: Theory and Applications 0 0 0 388 2 12 22 1,388
Selfconfirming Equilibrium and Model Uncertainty 0 0 0 128 0 8 16 265
Selfconfirming Equilibrium and Uncertainty 1 1 2 53 4 9 10 111
Sophisticated Reasoning, Learning, and Equilibrium in Repeated Games with Imperfect Feedback 0 0 0 18 2 9 15 41
Sources of Uncertainty and Subjective Prices 0 0 1 51 1 5 7 80
Strategies and interactive beliefs in dynamic games 0 0 2 91 2 5 8 257
Synchronic Information and Common Knowledge in Extensive Games 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 272
THE LOGIC OF BELIEF PERSISTENCY 0 0 0 1 0 3 4 20
The Epistemic Spirit of Divinity 0 0 0 14 1 13 20 29
Transparent Restrictions on Beliefs and Forward Induction Reasoning in Games with Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 94 0 7 16 263
Total Working Papers 4 10 48 6,620 103 435 850 22,794


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Note on Comparative Ambiguity Aversion and Justifiability 0 0 1 16 2 6 11 79
A Note on Stochastic Independence without Savage-Null Events 0 0 0 40 0 6 12 154
A framework for the analysis of self-confirming policies 0 0 0 2 1 5 8 11
Ambiguity attitudes and self-confirming equilibrium in sequential games 0 0 0 9 1 8 14 67
Analysis of information feedback and selfconfirming equilibrium 0 0 0 3 3 8 11 46
Behavioral equivalence of extensive game structures 0 0 0 4 3 9 13 38
Belief change, rationality, and strategic reasoning in sequential games 0 0 0 3 0 4 9 16
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory 0 2 10 51 2 7 37 123
Belief-dependent preferences and reputation: Experimental analysis of a repeated trust game 1 1 1 31 2 6 14 87
Beliefs, plans, and perceived intentions in dynamic games 0 0 2 8 0 4 11 55
Buyer power and quality improvements 0 0 0 80 0 5 9 280
Costly contracting in a long‐term relationship 0 1 1 58 1 10 17 207
Deception: The role of guilt 0 0 0 65 2 4 8 189
Dynamic Consistency and Imperfect Recall 0 0 0 47 0 6 11 129
Dynamic psychological games 0 0 7 426 2 10 31 1,433
Editors' Note 0 0 0 3 0 4 6 51
Editors' note 0 0 0 6 0 5 7 61
Epistemic game theory without types structures: An application to psychological games 0 0 1 16 5 7 17 73
Forward induction reasoning revisited 0 0 0 22 3 13 17 173
Four textbooks on game theory 0 0 1 109 1 7 9 347
Frustration and anger in the Ultimatum Game: An experiment 0 0 1 23 1 5 13 122
Frustration, aggression, and anger in leader-follower games 0 0 0 33 2 13 24 160
Guilt aversion and inequality in dictator games 1 1 1 1 2 12 15 17
Guilt in Games 0 1 1 258 0 7 11 865
Hierarchies of Conditional Beliefs and Interactive Epistemology in Dynamic Games 0 0 1 88 2 9 19 308
Incomplete-Information Models of Guilt Aversion in the Trust Game 0 1 2 17 0 2 7 80
Incorporating belief-dependent motivation in games 0 0 0 31 2 10 24 122
Information flows and memory in games 0 1 1 2 2 6 13 25
Interactive Epistemology and Solution Concepts for Games with Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 48 1 10 12 190
Interactive beliefs, epistemic independence and strong rationalizability 0 0 0 50 0 9 13 222
Interactive epistemology in games with payoff uncertainty 0 0 0 40 1 9 12 148
Interactive epistemology in simple dynamic games with a continuum of strategies 0 0 0 8 1 9 17 70
Learning and self-confirming long-run biases 0 0 0 5 0 4 20 50
Learning and selfconfirming equilibria in network games 1 1 2 4 2 9 19 28
Mixed extensions of decision problems under uncertainty 0 0 0 20 1 4 11 72
On "Reputation" Refinements with Heterogeneous Beliefs 0 0 0 0 2 5 8 241
On Rationalizability in Extensive Games 0 0 0 135 1 9 13 343
RATIONALIZATION IN SIGNALING GAMES: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS 0 0 0 14 0 2 7 61
Rationalizability in infinite, dynamic games with incomplete information 0 0 0 112 2 8 17 320
Rationalizable bidding in first-price auctions 0 0 0 91 0 7 10 217
Rationalization and Incomplete Information 0 0 1 271 4 11 20 937
Recent results on belief, knowledge and the epistemic foundations of game theory 0 2 2 138 1 6 15 354
Rigidity, Discretion, and the Costs of Writing Contracts 0 0 1 229 2 6 21 942
Self-Confirming Equilibrium and Model Uncertainty 0 0 0 48 2 8 13 290
Sophisticated reasoning, learning, and equilibrium in repeated games with imperfect feedback 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 8
Strategic Independence and Perfect Bayesian Equilibria 0 0 1 82 0 9 16 297
Strategic Rationality Orderings and the Best Rationalization Principle 0 0 0 61 0 3 5 239
Strong Belief and Forward Induction Reasoning 0 0 0 226 1 10 16 602
Synchronic information, knowledge and common knowledge in extensive games 0 0 0 13 2 9 9 128
The Logic of Belief Persistence 0 0 0 9 0 5 13 72
The epistemic spirit of divinity 0 0 0 0 2 7 17 17
Transparent Restrictions on Beliefs and Forward-Induction Reasoning in Games with Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 21 0 4 8 81
Total Journal Articles 3 11 38 3,077 64 363 718 11,247


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