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Cognitive requirements for hawk-dove games: A functional analysis for evolutionary design.

Tomonori Morikawa1, James E Hanley, John Orbell

  • 1Center for International Education, Waseda University, 1-7-14-404, Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo, Japan. goducks1221@hotmail.com.

Politics and the Life Sciences : the Journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
|July 25, 2006
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Humans evolved cognitive mechanisms for social games like hawk-dove. This study identifies the optimal number of recognition orders (four) for adaptive game playing, suggesting simpler recognition evolved first.

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Area of Science:

  • Evolutionary psychology
  • Game theory
  • Cognitive science

Background:

  • Social animals, including humans, engage in adaptively significant games.
  • Evolutionary theory posits specialized cognitive mechanisms for social game playing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To perform a functional analysis of the information requirements for playing the hawk-dove conflict-of-interest game.
  • To determine the adaptive advantages of different orders of recognition in social game playing.

Main Methods:

  • Functional analysis of information requirements.
  • Development of novel graphic conventions for representing recognition orders.
  • Analysis of adaptive advantages for successive orders of recognition.

Main Results:

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  • Identified adaptive advantages for first, second, third, and fourth orders of recognition in the hawk-dove game.
  • Demonstrated that advantages cease beyond the fourth order of recognition.
  • Proposed a hierarchy of cognitive evolution, with first-order recognition being the most basic and likely earliest to evolve.

Conclusions:

  • The hawk-dove game necessitates specific orders of recognition for successful play.
  • Cognitive capacities for social game playing evolved incrementally, with higher-order recognition developing after basic forms.
  • Understanding these cognitive requirements offers insights into the evolution of social intelligence.