Toward Representing Social Interaction Principles of Power Conduct in a Game Context

This paper presents a new approach to the Machiavellianism (manipulation) interaction social behavior theory, based on game models. Machiavellian players are those who employ Machiavellian tactics, immorality and views in order to achieve their goals. In the game, the tactics and the immorality are represented by quasi-concave functions, and the views are represented by a quasi-convex function. Every function establishes by itself a preference relationship. Under the closure of the three ordering functions, a new order in R-space is generated, representing the Machiavellianism preference relationship. The Machiavellian players interaction behavior is analyzed using the deterministic, non-iterated prisoner’s dilemma game.