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First World Congress of the Game Theory Society (Games 2000)
July 24-28, 2000
Basque Country University and Fundacion B.B.V.
Bilbao, Spain

Organizers
Ehud Kalai, Federico Valenciano

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Cognitive Uncertainty in Games
by
Thorsten Clausing
University of Magdeburg

A notion of cognitive uncertainty is introduced as an agent's uncertainty about the validity of the results of his own information processing. In order to analyze this notion, a formal model of the agent's information processing is presented. It is shown how cognitive uncertainty may prevent a group of well informed rational agents from playing backward induction in a game of perfect information, whereas they would play backward induction without such uncertainty.

Date received: June 26, 2000

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