Levels of theory-of-mind reasoning in competitive games

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-108

  Goodie, Adam S ^a   Doshi, Prashant ^b   Young, Diana L ^c  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b Georgia College and State University ^*  (United States)

^c GEORGIA COLLEGE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Games; Learning; Recursive reasoning; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 83155190311     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.717     Document Type: Article

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