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    "pk": 30154,
    "title": "A Resource-Rational Mechanistic Account of Human Coordination Strategies",
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    "abstract": "Humans often coordinate their actions in order to reach a mu-tually advantageous state. These circumstances are chieflymodeled by coordination games, a well-known class of gamesextensively studied in behavioral economics. In this work,we present the first resource-rational mechanistic approachto coordination games, showing that a variant of norma-tive expected-utility maximization acknowledging cognitivelimitations can account for several major experimental find-ings on human coordination behavior in strategic settings.Concretely, we show that Nobandegani et al.’s (2018) ratio-nal process model, sample-based expected utility, providesa unified account of (1) the effect of time pressure on hu-man coordination, and (2) how systematic variations of risk-vs. payoff-dominance affect coordination behavior. Impor-tantly, Harsanyi and Selten’s (1988) theory of equilibrium se-lection fails to account for (1-2). As such, our work suggeststhat the optimal use of limited cognitive resources may lie atthe core of human coordination behavior. We conclude by dis-cussing the implication of our work for understanding humanstrategic behavior, moral decision-making, and human ratio-nality.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "behavioral game theory; one-shot non-cooperativegames; coordination games; moral decision-making; resource-rational process models"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers accepted as Posters, appearing in proceedings only",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Ardavan",
            "middle_name": "S.",
            "last_name": "Nobandegani",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "McGill University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Thomas",
            "middle_name": "R.",
            "last_name": "Shultz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "McGill University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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