Social preferences and strategic thinking in centipede games : an experiment

• Main Authors: Yang, Yi, Zhang, Jiasheng, Zheng, Qi
• Other Authors: Yohanes Eko Riyanto
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic theory::Microeconomics; DRNTU::Science::Mathematics::Applied mathematics::Game theory
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62758
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Empathy, defined as the ability to “understand and share the emotional states” of others, has been widely investigated by researchers in recent years. Our study investigated the role of empathy on subjects’ decisions in the constant-sum and increasing-sum centipede games, incorporating the empathy-r...