Eureka Learning: Heuristics and response time in perfect information games

This paper investigates the possibility that people discover effective heuristics when playing similar perfect information games of varying complexity. We call this discovery experience Eureka Learning. We use a change-point analysis to identify 35 percent of our subjects as Eureka Learners.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	McKinney, C. Nicholas ; Huyck, John B. Van
Published in:	Games and Economic Behavior. - Elsevier, ISSN 0899-8256. - Vol. 79.2013, C, p. 223-232
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Bounded rationality \| Experiment \| Human behavior \| Learning \| Nim \| Perfect information \| Heuristics

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	C72 - Noncooperative Games ; C92 - Laboratory; Group Behavior ; D83 - Search, Learning, Information and Knowledge
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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