Hi Arielle, Thank you very much for exposing your reflections. Note that your main model -without payoff 5- is a prisoner's dilemma. It is a good idea to think about using game theory, but obviously this model is simplistic. It would take much more work to get to actually nontrivial realistic results from a game model.
I think you made a typo: « The top-right corner is the Nash Equilibrium ». It is the top left.
Also you say that the attractivity of the unique equilibrium explains why people defect/accuse. I think in real life people do not react to others' ... (read more)
Hi Arielle, Thank you very much for exposing your reflections. Note that your main model -without payoff 5- is a prisoner's dilemma. It is a good idea to think about using game theory, but obviously this model is simplistic. It would take much more work to get to actually nontrivial realistic results from a game model.
I think you made a typo: « The top-right corner is the Nash Equilibrium ». It is the top left.
Also you say that the attractivity of the unique equilibrium explains why people defect/accuse. I think in real life people do not react to others' ... (read more)