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On the Evolutionary Fitness of Bounded Rationality: Heterogeneous Populations in Antagonistic Interactions

Tassos Patokos1
  • 1 UADPhilEcon, University of Athens, 14 Evripidou Street, Athens 10559, Greece

Abstract

Conventional game theory assumes hyper-rational players, while evolutionary game theory abandons the assumption. This paper studies what happens when agents of both profiles co-exist and get engaged in a series of antagonistic interactions (the Hawk-Dove game). It is shown that if rational agents are perfectly informed as to the type of their opponent, they find it optimal to always be aggressive (that is, always select “Hawk”) when paired with an irrational player. It is then shown that, generally, a similar result is also valid when rational agents fail to recognise the type of their opponent with certainty. Finally, a discussion on why it may be fruitful to consider populations heterogeneous as to the rationality of agents is provided.

American Journal of Applied Sciences
Volume 2 No. 13, 2005, 1-13

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2005.1.13

Published On: 1 December 2005

How to Cite: Patokos, T. (2005). On the Evolutionary Fitness of Bounded Rationality: Heterogeneous Populations in Antagonistic Interactions. American Journal of Applied Sciences, 2(13), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2005.1.13

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Keywords

  • Evolutionary game
  • antagonistic interactions
  • rational agents
  • heterogeneous populations