Achievement

Trainee Seth Frey and his collaborators have demonstrated cyclic attractors and flocking behavior in games that involve iterated reasoning, challenging the traditional distinction between sophisticated high-level reasoning and herd behavior. One important result of their collective behavior experiments is that people are attracted to the presence of other people even in zero-sum games in which game theoretic models predict random choices. Over time, people within a group adjust their own amount of thinking ahead to fit the amount of thinking ahead of others in their group.