{"id":217433,"date":"2025-07-09T02:25:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/hybrid-model-reveals-people-act-less-rationally-in-complex-games-more-predictably-in-simple-ones"},"modified":"2025-07-09T02:25:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:25:52","slug":"hybrid-model-reveals-people-act-less-rationally-in-complex-games-more-predictably-in-simple-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/hybrid-model-reveals-people-act-less-rationally-in-complex-games-more-predictably-in-simple-ones","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid model reveals people act less rationally in complex games, more predictably in simple ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hybrid-model-reveals-people-act-less-rationally-in-complex-games-more-predictably-in-simple-ones2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Throughout their everyday lives, humans are typically required to make a wide range of decisions, which can impact their well-being, health, social connections, and finances. Understanding the human decision-making processes is a key objective of many behavioral science studies, as this could in turn help to devise interventions aimed at encouraging people to make better choices.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Princeton University, Boston University and other institutes used machine learning to predict the strategic decisions of humans in various games. Their paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-025-02230-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Human Behavior<\/i>, shows that a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/deep+neural+network\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">deep neural network<\/a> trained on human decisions could predict the strategic choices of players with high levels of accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur main motivation is to use modern computational tools to uncover the cognitive mechanisms that drive how people behave in strategic situations,\u201d Jian-Qiao Zhu, first author of the paper, told Phys.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout their everyday lives, humans are typically required to make a wide range of decisions, which can impact their well-being, health, social connections, and finances. Understanding the human decision-making processes is a key objective of many behavioral science studies, as this could in turn help to devise interventions aimed at encouraging people to make better [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}