Recursive Reasoning - People Are Inherently More Strategic Than Previously Believed

Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 12:31 in Psychology & Sociology

Think you're no good at Chess?   Not a strategic thinker?   You're better at it than you may think. When we make any decisions related to how we think someone else will act,  we must use reason to infer the other's next moves to decide what we must do. This recursive reasoning ability in humans has been thought to be somewhat limited but new research says people can engage in much higher levels of recursive reasoning than was previously thought.  read more

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