Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89336 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2013/05
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
We analyze subjects' eye movements while they make decisions in a series of one-shot games. The majority of them perform a partial and selective analysis of the payoff matrix, often ignoring the payoffs of the opponent and/or paying attention only to specific cells. Our results suggest that subjects apply boundedly rational decision heuristics that involve best responding to a simplification of the decision problem, obtained either by ignoring the other players' motivations or by considering them only for a subset of outcomes. Finally, we find a correlation between types of eye movements observed and choices in the games.
Subjects: 
one-shot games
eye-tracking
similarity
categorization
focal points
individual behavior
experimental economics
behavioral economics
JEL: 
C72
C91
D01
D83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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