The Black Box as a Control for Payoff-Based Learning in Economic Games

The black box method was developed as an “asocial control” to allow for payoff-based learning while eliminating social responses in repeated public goods games. Players are told they must decide how many virtual coins they want to input into a virtual black box that will provide uncertain returns. H...

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Main Authors: Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew, Stuart A. West
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-11-01
Series:Games
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/13/6/76