Arbeitspapier

More than Meets the Eye: an Eye-tracking Experiment on the Beauty Contest Game

The beauty contest game has been used to analyze how many steps of reasoning subjects are able to perform. A common finding is that a majority seem to have low levels of reasoning. We use eye-tracking to investigate not only the number chosen in the game, but also the strategies in use and the numbers contemplated. We can show that not all cases that are seemingly level-1 or level-2 thinking indeed are {they might be highly sophisticated adaptations to beliefs about other people's limited reasoning abilities.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Discussion Paper Series ; No. 516

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
beauty contest game
levels of reasoning
level-k model
strategic reason ing
cognitive hierarchy
Extensives Spiel
Wahrnehmung
Test

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Müller, Julia
Schwieren, Christiane
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
(where)
Heidelberg
(when)
2011

DOI
doi:10.11588/heidok.00012524
Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-125243
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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Müller, Julia
  • Schwieren, Christiane
  • University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2011

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