Game Theory Analysis of Self-Awareness and Politeness

EasyChair Preprint 3083

Abstract

This paper studies human irrational behavior from the perspective of behavioral economics. Through the establishment of a game model, we can understand why people do not seek help from others when they are clearly in trouble. By adding politeness and self-awareness as influencing factors, people's help-seeking and help-giving behavior was clarified by seeking Bayesian Nash equilibrium. As a result, we clarified the relationship between politeness, self-awareness and the willingness of the help seekers as well as the helpers. Specifically, on one hand, from the perspective of the help seekers, we can distinguish people who are likely to seek help from who are unlikely to seek help. On the other hand, from the perspective of helpers, we can distinguish people who are likely to help from who are unlikely to help others.

Keyphrases: Bayesian Nash equilibrium, Self-awareness Politeness, behavioral economics, game theory

@booklet{EasyChair:3083,
  author    = {Huanhuan Guo and Biao Gao},
  title     = {Game Theory Analysis of Self-Awareness and Politeness},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 3083},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}