Is it better to give information, receive it, or be ignorant in a two-player game?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 441-451

  McNamara, John M ^a   Wilson, Elaine M K ^a   Houston, Alasdair I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolutionarily stable strategy; Game; Information; Simultaneous solution; Stackelberg solution

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GAME THEORY; MATING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33645709870     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arj051     Document Type: Article

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