Social Learning and Coordination Conventions in Intergenerational Games: An Experimental Study Export

@article{SchotterSopher2003SocialLearningAndCoordinationConventionsInIntergenerationalGames, abstract = {We 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.}, author = {Schotter, Andrew and Sopher, Barry}, citeulike-article-id = {3748184}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/374187}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/374187}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://dx.doi.org.monstera.cc.columbia.edu:2048/10.1086/374187}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1086/374187}, journal = {Journal of Political Economy}, keywords = {behavioral-game-theory, convention, coordination, cultural-transmission, social-learning}, month = {June}, number = {3}, pages = {498--529}, posted-at = {2008-12-04 16:28:38}, priority = {5}, title = {Social Learning and Coordination Conventions in Intergenerational Games: An Experimental Study}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/374187}, volume = {111}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - SchotterSopher2003SocialLearningAndCoordinationConventionsInIntergenerationalGames L3 - citeulike-article-id:3748184 N2 - We 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. IS - 3 JF - Journal of Political Economy EP - 529 TI - Social Learning and Coordination Conventions in Intergenerational Games: An Experimental Study VL - 111 SP - 498 KW - behavioral-game-theory KW - convention KW - coordination KW - cultural-transmission KW - social-learning AU - Schotter, Andrew AU - Sopher, Barry PY - 2003/06/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/374187 ER -