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Game Theory, Decision Making in Conflicts and Computer Simulations: a Good-Looking Triad

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Social Science Microsimulation

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The study of decision making has been dominated by game theory. As a result, we have gained some insight into one of the more important features of human life. The emerging picture, however, is not good-looking. Decision makers rarely find the ideal rational solution to the simple, elegant but devious tasks presented to us by game theorists. Who to blame? What went wrong?

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  1. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen —SWI—, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Wim B. G. Liebrand

  2. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    David M. Messick

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  1. Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Informatik, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Rheinau 1, 56075, Koblenz, Germany

    Klaus G. Troitzsch

  2. Medizinische Soziologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Bunsenstraße 2, 35033, Marburg, Germany

    Ulrich Mueller

  3. Social and Computer Sciences Research Group, University of Surrey, GU2 5XG, Guildford, England

    G. Nigel Gilbert

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, CO4 3SQ, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, England

    Jim E. Doran

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Liebrand, W.B.G., Messick, D.M. (1996). Game Theory, Decision Making in Conflicts and Computer Simulations: a Good-Looking Triad. In: Troitzsch, K.G., Mueller, U., Gilbert, G.N., Doran, J.E. (eds) Social Science Microsimulation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03261-9_11

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