The Evolution of Strategic Sophistication
研究了人类推断他人偏好的能力如何演化而来，这种能力在博弈中至关重要，能帮助个体在充满新意的战略环境中高效调整行为，即使存在认知成本也具优势。
This paper investigates the evolutionary foundation for our ability to attribute preferences to others, an ability that is central to conventional game theory. We argue here that learning others' preferences allows individuals to efficiently modify their behavior in strategic environments with a persistent element of novelty. Agents with the ability to learn have a sharp, unambiguous advantage over those who are less sophisticated because the former agents extrapolate to novel circumstances information about opponents' preferences that was learned previously. This advantage holds even with a suitably small cost to reflect the additional cognitive complexity involved.