Failures of Contingent Thinking

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Auteurs principaux: Piermont, Evan, Zuazo-Garin, Peio
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author Piermont, Evan
Zuazo-Garin, Peio
author_facet Piermont, Evan
Zuazo-Garin, Peio
contents We present a behavioral definition of an agent's perceived implication that uniquely identifies a subjective state-space representing her view of a decision problem, and which may differ from the modeler's. By examining belief updating within this model, we formalize the recent empirical consensus that reducing uncertainty improves contingent thinking, and propose a novel form of updating corresponding to the agent 'realizing' a flaw in her own thinking. Finally, we clarify the sense in which contingent thinking makes state-bystate dominance more cognitively demanding than obvious dominance.
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spellingShingle Failures of Contingent Thinking
Piermont, Evan
Zuazo-Garin, Peio
Artificial Intelligence
Theoretical Economics
We present a behavioral definition of an agent's perceived implication that uniquely identifies a subjective state-space representing her view of a decision problem, and which may differ from the modeler's. By examining belief updating within this model, we formalize the recent empirical consensus that reducing uncertainty improves contingent thinking, and propose a novel form of updating corresponding to the agent 'realizing' a flaw in her own thinking. Finally, we clarify the sense in which contingent thinking makes state-bystate dominance more cognitively demanding than obvious dominance.
title Failures of Contingent Thinking
topic Artificial Intelligence
Theoretical Economics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07703