Team Reasoning and the Rational Choice of Payoff-Dominant Outcomes in Games

• DOI: 10.1007/s11245-018-9575-z
• Publication Date: 2018-07-10T08:22:49Z
• Authors: Natalie Gold; Andrew M. Colman
• Keywords: Stochastic game; Sketch; Argument (complex analysis)

Standard game theory cannot explain the selection of payoff-dominant outcomes that are best for all players in common-interest games. Theories team reasoning can why such mutualistic cooperation is rational. They propose teams be agents and individuals adopt a distinctive mode enables them to do their part achieving Pareto-dominant outcomes. We show it rational play outcomes, given an agent group identifies. compare other theories have been proposed how people achieve especially with respect rationality. Some authors hoped would possible develop argument identify. identify some large—probably insuperable—problems this project sketch more promising approaches, whereby normativity identification rests on morality.