Dominant strategy game
A situation where the best strategy does not depend on what the opponent does. Example: social dilemmas.
Coordination game
A situation where two persons ought to choose the same strategy. Examples: pure coordination games, battle of the sexes, stag hunt.
Pure coordination game
A situation where two persons ought to choose the same strategy, one of them being more beneficial for both. Other names: Pareto coordination game.
Battle of the sexes
A situation where two persons ought to chose the same strategy but they disagree about the best one. Other names: Bach or Stravinsky.
Anti-coordination game
A situation where two persons ought to choose different strategies. Examples: chicken game, samaritan dilemma.
Discoordination game
A situation where one person's incentive is to coordinate while the other person tries to avoid it. Example: matching pennies.
Social dilemma
A situation where collective interests are at odds with individual interests. Examples: chicken game, prisoners' dilemma, deadlock, stag hunt.
Chicken game
A situation where each person prefers not to yield to the other, but the outcome where neither person yields is the worst for both. Other names: Hawk-dove, snowdrift.
Stag hunt
A situation where there is a conflict between safety and cooperation. Other names: assurance game, trust dilemma.
Deadlock
A situation where two people ought to chose the strategy that is collectively most beneficial.
Prisoner's dilemma
A situation where the most rational strategy is the one that yields the worst collective outcome.
Iterated prisoner's dilemma
A repeated prisoner's dilemma with the opportunity to punish the other person for not cooperating.
Samaritan's dilemma
Revelation game
