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A NOTE ON REDUCED STRATEGIES AND COGNITIVE HIERARCHIES IN THE EXTENSIVE AND NORMAL FORM 0 1 1 14 1 4 27 44
A note on comparative ambiguity aversion and justi?fiability 0 0 0 47 1 2 19 106
Ambiguity Attitudes and Self-Confirming Equilibrium in Sequential Games 0 0 0 25 4 4 13 149
An Epistemic Characterisation of Extensive Form Rationalisability 0 0 0 93 2 2 9 863
An Epistemic Characterization of Extensive Form Rationalizability 0 0 0 60 1 1 12 396
Analysis of Information Feedback and Selfconfirming Equilibrium 0 0 0 71 2 2 19 136
Behavioral Equivalence of Extensive Game Structures 0 0 0 12 1 1 7 22
Behavioral Equivalence of Extensive Game Structures 0 0 0 14 0 0 8 36
Belief change, Rationality, and Strategic Reasoning in Sequential Games 0 0 1 27 0 0 20 100
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory 0 0 4 116 3 4 36 253
Belief-dependent Preferences and Reputation: Experimental Analysis of a Repeated Trust Game 0 0 0 129 1 1 18 162
Belief-dependent preferences and reputation: Experimental analysis of a repeated trust game 0 0 0 1 1 1 14 62
Beliefs, Plans, and Perceived Intentions in Dynamic Games 0 0 0 49 1 2 24 126
Buyer Power and Quality Improvement 0 0 0 171 1 1 21 693
Buyer Power and Quality Improvements 0 0 0 93 3 4 12 400
Context-Dependent Forward Induction Reasoning 0 0 0 47 1 2 17 169
Costly Contracting in a Long-Term Relationship 0 0 0 54 3 4 14 185
Costly Contracting in a Long-Term Relationship 0 0 1 113 1 1 11 539
Deception: The Role of Guilt 0 0 0 142 2 3 25 259
Disclosure of Belief-Dependent Preferences in a Trust Game 0 0 2 280 1 3 22 530
Dynamic Psychological Games 0 0 1 286 1 1 11 1,324
Dynamic Psychological Games 0 0 0 624 1 2 28 3,136
Epistemic Game Theory without Types Structures: An Application to Psychological Games 0 0 1 92 5 5 22 184
Frustration and Anger in Games 0 0 0 105 0 2 15 125
Frustration and Anger in Games 0 0 0 28 1 2 10 161
Frustration and Anger in the Ultimatum Game: An Experiment 0 0 0 87 1 3 36 299
Guilt and Inequality in Dictator Games 0 0 0 38 3 4 16 81
Guilt, Inequity, and Gender in a Dictator Game 0 0 6 69 0 0 33 148
Hierarchies of Conditional Beliefs and Interactive Epistemology in Dynamic Games 0 0 0 235 2 3 18 1,266
Imperfect Contracting 0 0 0 141 1 2 12 422
Incomplete Information Models of Guilt Aversion in the Trust Game 0 0 1 164 0 0 18 194
Incomplete Information Models of Guilt Aversion in the Trust Game 0 0 0 178 1 2 11 469
Incomplete-Information Models of Guilt Aversion in the Trust Game 0 0 0 0 1 1 9 34
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 1 109 0 2 17 327
Information Flows and Memory in Games 0 0 0 42 3 5 27 125
Interactive Beliefs and Forward Induction 0 0 0 1 0 1 14 295
Interactive Beliefs and Forward Induction 0 0 0 88 28 29 39 380
Interactive Epistemology and Solution Concepts for Games with Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 137 0 0 16 474
Interactive Epistemology in Simple Dynamic Games with a Continuum of Strategies 0 0 0 34 1 4 14 78
International agreements on product standard: an incomplete contracting theory 0 0 2 216 5 5 23 1,120
International agreements on product standards: an incomplete-contracting theory 0 0 0 134 1 2 12 631
Learning and Selfconfirming Equilibria in Network Games 0 0 0 19 5 5 15 57
Learning and Selfconfirming Equilibria in Network Games 0 0 0 26 1 2 15 46
M&A negotiations with limited information: how do opaque firms buy and get bought? 0 0 0 35 1 5 13 133
Mixed Extensions of Decision Problems under Uncertainty 0 0 0 84 1 3 14 209
On 'Reputation' Refinements with Heterogeneous Beliefs 0 0 0 28 2 4 11 70
Psychological Game Theory 1 1 1 384 2 3 45 900
RECENT RESULTS ON BELIEF, KNOWLEDGE AND THE EPISTEMIC FOUNDATIONS OF GAME THEORY 0 0 0 6 1 2 22 59
RECENT RESULTS ON BELIEF, KNOWLEDGE AND THE EPISTEMIC FOUNDATIONS OF GAME THEORY 0 0 0 412 1 1 4 960
Rationalizability in Incomplete Information Games 0 0 0 1 1 3 9 265
Rationalizable Bidding in General First-Price Auctions 0 0 0 138 0 0 9 602
Rationalization and Incomplete Information 0 0 0 290 2 4 19 637
Rationalization in Signaling Games: Theory and Applications 0 0 0 388 2 2 21 1,391
Selfconfirming Equilibrium and Model Uncertainty 0 0 0 128 0 0 20 272
Selfconfirming Equilibrium and Uncertainty 0 0 2 53 0 4 19 120
Sophisticated Reasoning, Learning, and Equilibrium in Repeated Games with Imperfect Feedback 0 0 0 18 0 4 18 46
Sources of Uncertainty and Subjective Prices 2 2 3 54 3 6 17 91
Strategies and interactive beliefs in dynamic games 0 0 1 91 2 2 12 262
Synchronic Information and Common Knowledge in Extensive Games 0 0 0 0 2 3 10 276
THE LOGIC OF BELIEF PERSISTENCY 0 0 0 1 2 2 5 22
The Epistemic Spirit of Divinity 0 0 0 14 0 2 21 33
Transparent Restrictions on Beliefs and Forward Induction Reasoning in Games with Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 94 2 3 21 270
Total Working Papers 3 4 28 6,630 115 177 1,089 23,224


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Note on Comparative Ambiguity Aversion and Justifiability 0 0 0 16 0 0 12 84
A Note on Stochastic Independence without Savage-Null Events 0 0 0 40 2 2 13 157
A framework for the analysis of self-confirming policies 0 0 0 2 2 2 12 15
Ambiguity attitudes and self-confirming equilibrium in sequential games 0 0 0 9 3 3 18 73
Analysis of information feedback and selfconfirming equilibrium 0 0 0 3 3 3 15 53
Behavioral equivalence of extensive game structures 0 0 0 4 1 1 14 42
Belief change, rationality, and strategic reasoning in sequential games 0 0 0 3 0 0 10 20
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory 0 0 5 52 3 5 25 135
Belief-dependent preferences and reputation: Experimental analysis of a repeated trust game 0 0 2 32 2 2 17 94
Beliefs, plans, and perceived intentions in dynamic games 0 0 0 8 1 2 15 62
Buyer power and quality improvements 0 0 0 80 0 0 9 281
Costly contracting in a long‐term relationship 0 0 1 58 4 5 19 214
Deception: The role of guilt 0 0 0 65 0 0 14 197
Disclosure of belief–dependent preferences in a trust game 1 1 1 1 4 5 11 11
Dynamic Consistency and Imperfect Recall 0 0 0 47 1 2 14 133
Dynamic psychological games 0 0 1 426 4 5 25 1,444
Editors' Note 0 0 0 3 2 2 8 55
Editors' note 0 0 0 6 1 1 10 64
Epistemic game theory without types structures: An application to psychological games 0 0 0 16 2 2 13 76
Forward induction reasoning revisited 0 0 0 22 1 2 22 179
Four textbooks on game theory 0 0 0 109 0 1 9 349
Frustration and anger in the Ultimatum Game: An experiment 0 0 0 23 1 1 13 126
Frustration, aggression, and anger in leader-follower games 0 0 0 33 0 2 26 168
Guilt aversion and inequality in dictator games 0 0 2 2 0 0 18 22
Guilt in Games 0 0 1 258 3 6 20 877
Hierarchies of Conditional Beliefs and Interactive Epistemology in Dynamic Games 0 0 0 88 0 0 18 310
Incomplete-Information Models of Guilt Aversion in the Trust Game 0 1 2 18 1 5 15 91
Incorporating belief-dependent motivation in games 0 0 0 31 0 0 17 126
Information flows and memory in games 0 0 1 2 1 2 12 27
Interactive Epistemology and Solution Concepts for Games with Asymmetric Information 0 1 1 49 0 3 17 196
Interactive beliefs, epistemic independence and strong rationalizability 0 0 0 50 1 2 16 226
Interactive epistemology in games with payoff uncertainty 0 2 2 42 5 7 20 158
Interactive epistemology in simple dynamic games with a continuum of strategies 0 0 1 9 2 2 21 76
Learning and self-confirming long-run biases 0 0 0 5 0 2 14 54
Learning and selfconfirming equilibria in network games 0 0 1 4 2 3 17 31
Mixed extensions of decision problems under uncertainty 0 0 0 20 1 1 15 80
Monotonicity and Robust Implementation Under Forward‐Induction Reasoning 0 0 0 0 0 8 17 17
On "Reputation" Refinements with Heterogeneous Beliefs 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 245
On Rationalizability in Extensive Games 0 0 0 135 1 1 16 346
RATIONALIZATION IN SIGNALING GAMES: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS 0 0 0 14 0 1 8 64
Rationalizability in infinite, dynamic games with incomplete information 0 0 0 112 1 1 20 325
Rationalizable bidding in first-price auctions 0 0 0 91 0 1 14 222
Rationalization and Incomplete Information 0 0 0 271 2 5 25 947
Recent results on belief, knowledge and the epistemic foundations of game theory 0 0 2 138 1 3 17 360
Rigidity, Discretion, and the Costs of Writing Contracts 0 0 0 229 1 4 27 953
Self-Confirming Equilibrium and Model Uncertainty 0 0 1 49 1 2 15 295
Sophisticated reasoning, learning, and equilibrium in repeated games with imperfect feedback 0 1 1 1 2 3 10 14
Strategic Independence and Perfect Bayesian Equilibria 0 0 0 82 3 3 17 302
Strategic Rationality Orderings and the Best Rationalization Principle 0 0 0 61 2 3 9 243
Strong Belief and Forward Induction Reasoning 0 0 0 226 1 1 15 605
Synchronic information, knowledge and common knowledge in extensive games 0 0 0 13 2 2 14 133
The Logic of Belief Persistence 0 0 0 9 1 1 12 75
The epistemic spirit of divinity 0 0 0 0 0 1 20 26
Transparent Restrictions on Beliefs and Forward-Induction Reasoning in Games with Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 21 2 3 15 88
Total Journal Articles 1 6 25 3,088 73 124 846 11,566


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