About the Book
This book consists of articles from Wikia. Pages: 74. Chapters: Battle of the sexes, Bayesian game, Bishop-Cannings theorem, Bounded rationality, Centipede game, Chicken game, Cooperative game, Coordination game, Correlated equilibrium, Deterrence theory, Dictator game, Dominance, Evolutionarily stable strategies, Evolutionarily stable strategy, Evolution and the Theory of Games, Extensive form game, Folk theorem, Free rider problem, Game of chicken, Green-beard effect, Information set, Irrational escalation, List of games in game theory, List of game theorists, Matching pennies, Minority game, Mixed strategy, Nash bargaining game, Nash equilibrium, Negotiation theory, Non zero sum games, Normal form game, Pareto efficiency, Perfect information, Perfect rationality, Pirate game, Prisoners dilemma game, Proper equilibrium, Public goods game, Punctuality, Pure strategy, Purification theorems, Quasi-perfect equilibrium, Rationalizability, Repeated game, Revelation principle, Rock paper scissors, Sequential game, Signaling games, Social dilemma, Social traps, Solution concept, Strategy, Subgame perfect equilibrium, Superrationality, Symmetric equilibrium, Symmetric game, Tragedy of the commons, Volunteer's dilemma, War of attrition. Excerpt: The Battle of the Sexes is a two player coordination game used in game theory. Imagine a couple, Kelly and Chris. Kelly would most of all like to go to the football game. Chris would like to go to the opera. Both would prefer to go to the same place rather than different ones. If they cannot communicate, where should they go? The payoff matrix labeled "Battle of the sexes (1)" is an example of Battle of the Sexes, where Chris chooses a row and Kelly chooses a column. This representation does not account for the additional harm that might come from going to different locations and going to the wrong one. In order to account for this, the game is sometimes represented as in "Battle of the sexes (2)." This second representation bea...
