Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. I recently had a revealing conversation with a friend — a game ...

Prof. Avinash Dixit, John Nash's colleague and friend explains game theory and its impact on situations we encounter every ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine you had a friend who gave different answers to the same question, depending on how you asked it. “What’s the capital of Peru?” ...

Game Theory—have you ever heard of it? It sounds complicated because it has the word "theory" in it, but it is actually a ...

To understand how driverless vehicles can navigate the complexities of the road, researchers often use game theory—mathematical models representing the way rational agents behave strategically to meet ...

As brilliantly visualized in the Disney-Pixar animated movie "Inside Out" (2015), emotions guide most of our actions, if not all. However, for a long time, economists did not pay much attention to ...

The most serious environmental problems facing our planet require cooperative solutions. Ensuring the sustainability of the Murray-Darling river system requires the cooperation of several states.