Game theory
Subtitle: lost in New York
By: ABC News Productions ; producer, Thomas Berman
Contributors: Nalebuff, Barry, 1958-; Pyle, Jack; ABC News Productions; Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 41
Subjects: Perception; Game theory; Human behavior; Personality and motivation; Films for the hearing impaired
Other titles: Lost in New York; Primetime live (Television program)
Description: Six pairs of people are deposited in separate locations all over New York City and ordered to find each other -- without being told where to look.  This program presents an intriguing psychological puzzle involving participants who must join up -- somewhere, somehow -- in a city of eight million people.  Incorporating principles from the mathematical discipline known as game theory the program shows how envisioning the plans and intentions of others, when utilizing the scantiest of evidence and the most basic inferences, can produce a viable strategy.
Notes: Title from disc.

Originally produced for the television program Primetime Live, broadcast on March 16, 2006.

Editor, Jack Pyle.

Commentary by Barry Nalebuff.

DVD.

Closed-captioned.