Games and human behavior
Subtitle: essays in honor of Amnon Rapoport
By: edited by David V. Budescu, Ido Erev, Rami Zwick.
Contributors: Rapoport, Amnon.; Budescu, David V.; Erev, Ido.; Zwick, Rami.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
Subjects: Rapoport, Amnon; Small groups -- Mathematical models; Coalition (Social sciences) -- Mathematical models; Game theory; Group decision making
Description: Human behavior often violates the predictions of rational choice theory. This realization has caused many social psychologists and experimental economists to attempt to develop an experimentally based variant of game theory as an alternative descriptive model. The impetus for this book is the interest in the development of such a theory that combines elements from both disciplines and appeals to both.

Games and Human Behavior offers a comprehensive overview of the new insights into the motivation of human behavior under a variety of naturally or artificially induced incentive structures that are emerging from their work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"Based on a workshop that took place in August 1966 in Chapel Hill, NC, in honor of Professor Amnon Rapoport's 60th birthday"--Pref.