Shafir - Tversky



You are player 1 in the following game in which you and an anonymous player, called player 2, have to choose simultaneously, one of two actions, C or D (payoffs are in $'s). What do you play ? Don't try to find "correct" answer, try to think what you have done of faced such a situation.

Player 2
Player 1

C

D

  C  

20, 20 5 , 25

D

25,  5 10, 10

 Results

Player 2 played C

98         99

n=46    n=50

Player 2 played D

98          99

n=49    n=50

No information on Player 2

98          99

n=58    n=50

C 9%      12% 4%      0% 16%    16%
D 91%    88% 96%   100% 84%    84%