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An Empirical Test of Type-Indeterminacy in the Prisoner's Dilemma

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  • Jérôme Busemeyer

    (Indiana University - Indiana University [Bloomington] - Indiana University System)

  • Peter Kvam

    (Michigan State University [East Lansing] - Michigan State University System)

  • Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky

    (PSE - Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

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In this paper, we test the type indeterminacy hypothesis by analyzing an experiment that examines the stability of preferences in a Prisoner Dilemma with respect to decisions made in a context that is both payoff and informationally unrelated to that Prisoner Dilemma. More precisely we carried out an experiment in which participants were permitted to make promises to cooperate to agents they saw, followed by playing a Prisoner's Dilemma game with another, independent agent. It was found that, after making a promise to the first agent, participants exhibited higher rates of cooperation with other agents. We show that a classical model does not account for this effect, while a type indeterminacy model which uses elements of the formalism of quantum mechanics is able to capture the observed effects reasonably well.

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  • Jérôme Busemeyer & Peter Kvam & Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky, 2014. "An Empirical Test of Type-Indeterminacy in the Prisoner's Dilemma," PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) halshs-01053522, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:pseptp:halshs-01053522
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-54943-4_19
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