title: Coordination games, anti-coordination games, and imitative learning.
abstract: Bentley et al.'s scheme generates distributions characteristic of situations of high and low social influence on decisions and of high and low salience ("transparency") of rewards. Another element of decisions that may influence the placement of a decision process in their map is the way in which individual decisions interact to determine the payoffs. This commentary discusses the role of Nash equilibria in game theory, focusing especially on coordination and anti-coordination games.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics and International Business, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104; Department of Emergency Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19102. mccainra@drexel.edu http://faculty.lebow.drexel.edu/mccainr/ Richard.Hamilton@drexelmed.edu https://www.drexelmed.edu/Home/AboutOurFaculty/RichardHamilton.aspx.
authors.forename: Roger A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: McCain
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics and International Business, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104; Department of Emergency Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19102. mccainra@drexel.edu http://faculty.lebow.drexel.edu/mccainr/ Richard.Hamilton@drexelmed.edu https://www.drexelmed.edu/Home/AboutOurFaculty/RichardHamilton.aspx.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hamilton
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D012919:Social Behavior; D060756:Social Networking