Altering payoffs influences game strategies, leading to coordination failures.
The article explores how people make choices in games where they need to coordinate with others. The researchers found that players often pick strategies that are predicted by a concept called Nash equilibrium. However, this doesn't always lead to the best outcome for everyone involved. By changing the rewards for certain strategies, players can be influenced to choose different strategies. The results suggest that players tend to assume their opponents are cooperative, even when it might not be the best strategy.