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Mating strategies as game theory: Changing rules?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Linda Mealey
Linda Mealey
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, College of St Benedict, St Joseph, MN 56374; School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 4072 lmealey@csbsju.eduwww.employees.csbsju.edu/lmealey
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Abstract

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Human behavior can be analyzed using game theory models. Complex games may involve different rules for different players and may allow players to change identity (and therefore, rules) according to complex contingencies. From this perspective, mating behaviors can be viewed as strategic “plays” in a complex “mating game,” with players varying tactics in response to changes in the game's payoff matrix.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , August 2000 , pp. 613
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press