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Why not go all the way

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2003

Richard Schuster*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa31905, Israel

Abstract:

“Psychology Game Theory” grafts social-process explanations onto classical game theory to explain deviations from instrumental rationality caused by the social properties of cooperation. This leads to confusion between cooperation as a social or individual behavior, and between ultimate and proximate explanations. If game theory models explain the existence of cooperation, different models are needed for understanding the proximate social processes that underlie cooperation in the real world.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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