Neurocognitive dysfunction in strategic and non-strategic gamblers

Strategic and non-strategic problem gamblers differ on decision-making under risk and ambiguity.

AIMS To analyse problem gamblers' decision-making under conditions of risk and ambiguity, investigate underlying psychological factors associated with their choice behaviour and examine whether decision-making differed in strategic (e.g., sports betting) and non-strategic (e.g., electronic gaming machine) problem gamblers. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Out-patient treatment centres ...

Reasoning in Strategic and Non-Strategic Interactions

Revisiting strategic versus non-strategic cooperation

We propose a novel experimental method that disentangles strategicallyand non-strategicallymotivated behavior. We apply it to an indefinitely-repeated prisoner’s dilemma game to observe simultaneously how the same individual behaves in situations with future interaction and in situations with no future interaction, while controlling for expectations. This method allows us to determine the exten...

Strategic Voting and Strategic Candidacy

Models of strategic candidacy analyze the incentives of candidates to run in an election. Most work on this topic assumes that strategizing only takes place among candidates, whereas voters vote truthfully. In this paper, we extend the analysis to also include strategic behavior on the part of the voters. (We also study cases where only candidates or only voters are strategic.) We consider two ...

Non-Fully Strategic Information Transmission

Building on Crawford and Sobel’s (1982) general communication model, this paper introduces the possibility that players are non-strategic. The sender may be honest and have a preference for speaking truthfully. The receiver may be naive and erroneously believe that the sender is truthful. In contrast to the predictions of the fully-strategic model, we show that there is an equilibrium where com...