Game playing seems to satisfy a basic craving of human cognition by exercising its fundamental abilities in a competitive setting. Therefore, it provides an excellent benchmark to study and evaluate cognitive models in tractable yet naturalistic settings that are simple and formal yet reproduce much of the complexity of real life. Poker is probably the most widely played card game, with endless...

Our species is routinely depicted as unique in its ability to achieve cooperation, whereas our closest relative, the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), is often characterized as overly competitive. Human cooperation is assisted by the cost attached to competitive tendencies through enforcement mechanisms, such as punishment and partner choice. To examine if chimpanzees possess the same ability to mi...

This paper reports experiments motivated by ongoing controversies regarding tick size in markets. The minimum tick size in a market dictates discrete values at which bids and asks can be tendered by market participants. All transaction prices must occur at these discrete values, which are established by the rules of each exchange. The simplicity of experiments helps to distinguish among competi...

news about iran-iraq war outbreak in world press and their analysis of this war has been considered in this essay. its method is content analysis using statistical data. analyzed news is related to a two-year period. each news headline trend will be discussed in a special format

OBJECTIVE To understand factors that influence parental perceptions regarding mandatory mouthguard use in competitive youth soccer. SETTING AND SUBJECTS A web based survey of parents whose 8-14 year old children participated in outdoor competitive youth soccer during the fall of 2002. Questions focused on: previous injury, education provided, dentist/physician recommendations, and parental pe...

regarding competitive world, economic factors and socialfactors could be effective on business. the social network has animportant role as social characteristics, propulsion and basic force forsocial cohesion in internet business activities. the purpose of this paper isto examine the impact of social networks on the internet businesssustainability by intermediation of entrepreneurial intention....