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Cyclic attractors and flocking behavior in games

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Cyclic attractors and flocking behavior in games

Trainee Seth Frey and his collaborators have demonstrated cyclic attractors and flocking behavior in games that involve iterated reasoning, challenging the traditional distinction between sophisticated high-level reasoning and herd behavior. One important result of their collective behavior experiments is that people are attracted to the presence of other people even in zero-sum games in which game theoretic models predict random choices. Over time, people within a group adjust their own amount of thinking ahead to fit the amount of thinking ahead of others in their group.
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