This study simultaneously varied experiences of recent victory or defeat, 2-hour familiarity with the meeting place, and hen weight in order to understand their combined effects on the establishment of dyadic dominance relationships between hens not previously acquainted with each other. Three kinds of encounters were arranged: (i) a previous winner unfamiliar with the meeting place met a previ...

Absentmindedness is a special case of imperfect recall which according to Piccione and Rubinstein (1997a) leads to time inconsistencies. Aumann, Hart and Perry (1997a) question their argument and show how dynamic inconsistencies can be resolved. The present paper explores this issue from a descriptive point of view by examining the behavior of absentminded individuals in a laboratory environmen...

Abstract This paper introduces a bottleneck game with finite sets of commuters and departing time slots as an extension congestion games Konishi et al. (J Econ Theory 72:225–237, 1997a). After characterizing Nash equilibrium the game, we provide sufficient conditions for which equivalence between strong equilibria holds. Somewhat surprisingly, unlike in games, pure strategies may often fail to ...