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Billiards and Brains: Cognitive Ability and Behavior in a p-Beauty Contest
"Beauty contests" are well-studied, dominance-solvable games that generate two interesting results. First, most behavior does not conform to the unique Nash equilibrium. Second, there is considerable unexplained heterogeneity in behavior. In this work, we evaluate the relationship between beauty contest behavior and cognitive ability. We find that subjects with high cognitive ability exhibit behavior that is closer to the Nash equlibrium. We examine this finding through the prism of economic and biological theory.beauty contest; rationality; cognitive ability; Nash equlibrium
Spartan Daily, August 29, 1983
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Spartan Daily, April 26, 1972
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Mortal Kombat: The Effect of Violent Videogame Play on Males' Hostility and Cardiovascular Responding
We examined cardiovascular (CV) reactivity and hostility among 30 male undergraduates
after either nonviolent (billiards) or 1 of 2 levels of violent videogame
play. Violence varied among 2 versions of the game Mortal Kombat (MKl = less
violent, MK2 = more violent)-all other factors (graphics, sound) were held equal.
As expected, increased game violence elicited greater CV reactivity and higher scores
on hostility measures. Subjects who played MK1 or MK2 had higher heart rate
reactivity than those who played billiards. Subjects who played MK2 showed greater
systolic blood pressure reactivity than those who played MKl or billiards. Finally,
subjects who played MK2 scored higher on the hostility measures than those who
played MKl, who in turn scored higher than those who played billiards. These results
indicate that the level of videogame violence, not just violence per se, should be of
concern to consumers
Pedestrians moving in dark: Balancing measures and playing games on lattices
We present two conceptually new modeling approaches aimed at describing the
motion of pedestrians in obscured corridors:
* a Becker-D\"{o}ring-type dynamics
* a probabilistic cellular automaton model.
In both models the group formation is affected by a threshold. The
pedestrians are supposed to have very limited knowledge about their current
position and their neighborhood; they can form groups up to a certain size and
they can leave them. Their main goal is to find the exit of the corridor.
Although being of mathematically different character, the discussion of both
models shows that it seems to be a disadvantage for the individual to adhere to
larger groups. We illustrate this effect numerically by solving both model
systems. Finally we list some of our main open questions and conjectures
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