Exploring the space of human exploration

Abstract excerpt

What drives people’s exploration in complex scenarios where they have to actively acquire information by making queries? How do people adapt their selection of queries to their environment? We explore these questions using Entropy Mastermind, a novel variant of the Mastermind code-breaking game, in which participants have to guess a secret code by making useful queries. Participants solved games more efficiently a...

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• Cooperative Behavior
• Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
• Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
• Game Theory
• Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
• Models, Biological
• Mutation
• Population Dynamics

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Literature Corpus work

47673c50-905d-58a8-a142-f3bcc59244d1

DOI

10.1101/540666