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. 2015 Mar 31;9:102. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00102

Table 1.

Game class characteristics.

Game class Abbreviation Number and types of Nash Equilibria Dom. solvable? Incentives
PSNE [PDNE, RDNE] MSNE
Zero-sum ZS 0 or 1 1 or 0 Possibly Pure conflict
Prisoner's Dilemma PD 1 0 Yes Social dilemma
Mixed strategy MS 0 1 No Discoordination
Stag hunt SH 2 [1, 1] 1 No Coordination
Chicken CH 2 [0, 1] 1 No Anti-coordination
Battle of the Sexes BOS 2 [0, 1] 1 No Coordination
No competition NC 1 0 Possibly No conflict

PSNE, pure strategy NE; MSNE, mixed-strategy NE; PDNE, payoff-dominant NE; RDNE, risk-dominant NE.