Social Learning and Coordination Conventions in Intergenerational Games: An Experimental Study
2003; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 111; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1086/374187
ISSN1537-534X
AutoresAndrew Schotter, Barry Sopher,
Tópico(s)Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
ResumoWe investigate the creation and evolution of conventions of behavior in "intergenerational games" or games in which a sequence of nonoverlapping "generations" of players play a stage game for a finite number of periods and are then replaced by other agents who continue the game in their role for an identical length of time. Players in generation t can offer advice to their successors in generation $$t+1.$$ What we find is that word‐of‐mouth social learning (in the form of advice from laboratory "parents" to laboratory "children") can be a strong force in the creation of social conventions.
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