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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: St_Bill who wrote (30538)	9/30/2001 11:52:53 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

LOL. I can imagine someone who was such an incompetent that NONE of their nefarious plans worked out - in a cartoon - that's kind of the basis of one of my favorites, Pinky and the Brain. But, if per chance, such a creature did appear in real life, I'd not spend a lifetime chastising it but rather, I'd hope that its "evil plans" were worked on me. The predictable nature of people in their response can be a firm foundation upon to which to build a system. I wish all people came with a mapping function that would allow you to tell their response for a given input. On that note, here is an article (I may have already posted this one to X). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PSYCHOLOGY: Human Versus Computer --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gilbert J. Chin One topic occupying countless hours of coffee klatch is predicting how one person will behave toward another. Often arising in situations where choices must be made, the attempt to construct the possible outcomes of another individual's actions relies on considering not only the short-term consequences but also the long-term reverberations. Some of the factors taken into account are the payoff matrix (for example, relating actions to rewards in a two-player game) and the reputations of the players. McCabe et al. have taken a step in uncovering the neural basis of making cooperative choices by conducting a brain imaging analysis of participants in a trust and reciprocity game. By giving up immediate profit, the first player could obtain a larger reward if the "opponent" then cooperated by not grabbing the lion's share. Prefrontal regions of the brain (the "command and control" center) were more active in trials where the opponent was a second and potentially cooperative human as compared with a computer that pursued a fixed strategy of known probabilistic choice. What, precisely, this activation represents will be examined in future studies. - - GJC Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98, 11832 (2001).