Resolving the trust predicament: A quantum game-theoretic approach

作者：Arfi B^*

来源：Theory and Decision, 2005, 59(2): 127-174.

DOI：10.1007/s11238-005-8632-4

• trust predicament
• quantum game theory

Developing a good theoretical understanding of the role of trust in IR (such as in the events leading to the end of the Cold War) is still an open problem. Most game-theoretic studies of trust do not go beyond the limitations of an (ontologically) individualistic paradigm, thus assuming a pre-defined set of individual strategies. Yet, it is a fact that the predicament of collective trust is empirically resolved in many situations. This paper suggests a new game-theoretic approach-Quantum Game Theory (QGT)-to understand and explain how the predicament of trust is resolved. In a quantum game of trust the actors play the game by simultaneously collectively reconstructing the strategic environment in such a way as to become mutually strategically entangled. Quantum strategic entanglement allows trust to emerge between the two actors without assuming a need for signaling, prior "contract" type of arrangement, or any form of third-party communication. The paper develops and solves such a model of quantum game of trust

• 出版日期2005-9