09:15 - 10:45
Parallel track
Room: Kanunnikenzaal
An experimantal study of network effects on coordination in asymmetric games
Joris Broere 1, Vincent Buskens 1, Henk Stoof 2, Angel Sánchez 3
1 Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, Utrecht
2 Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, Utrecht
3 Departamento de Matematicas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid

Network structure has often proven to be important in understanding the decision behavior of individuals or agents for different interdependent situations. Computational studies predict that network structure has a crucial influence on behavior in iterated 2 by 2 asymmetric `battle of the sexes' games. We test such behavioral predictions in an experiment with 240 human subjects. We found that as expected the less `random' the network structure, the better the experimental results are predictable by the of the computational models. In particular, there is an effect of network clustering on the heterogeneity of convergence behavior in the network. We also found that degree centrality and having an even degree are important predictors for the decision behavior of the subjects in the experiment. We thus find empirical validation of previous computational models using human subjects.


Reference:
Th-Topics in behavioral social sciences-4
Session:
Topics in behavioral social sciences
Presenter/s:
Joris Broere
Room:
Kanunnikenzaal
Date:
Thursday, 2 May
Time:
09:15 - 10:45
Session times:
09:15 - 10:45