We investigate how childhood cognitive skills affect strategic sophistication and adult outcomes. In particular, we emphasize the importance of theory-of-mind as a skill. collected experimental data from more than seven hundred children in variety interactions. First, find that ability both predict level-k behavior. Second, older respond to information about their opponent, which provides suppo...

This paper introduces a general framework for dealing with dynamic inconsistency in the context of Markov decision problems. It carefully decouples and examines concepts that are often entwined in the literature: it distinguishes between the decision maker and its various temporal agents, and between the beliefs and intentions of the agents. Classical examples of naiveté and sophistication are ...

This paper reports on a study in a large health services organization which investigated the factors which may affect end user sophistication in the use of computers. Quantitative data were gathered by survey from 194 computer users and structural equation modelling was used to test a conceptual model of user sophistication. The research findings emphasised the importance of computer self-effic...

Political trust is an important indicator of political legitimacy. Hence, seemingly decreasing levels of political trust in Western democracies have stimulated a growing body of research on the causes and consequences of political trust. However, the neglect of potential measurement problems of political trust raises doubts about the findings of earlier studies. The current study revisits the m...