Occupation: Psychologist Birth: May 22, 1911 Death: January 20, 2007
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions..
The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community..
The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision..
The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a lar….
Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant….
On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of human behavior can be des….
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each….
In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the trench where he and others ….
It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics of social struc….
Although the drama of games of strategy is strongly linked with the psychological aspects of the conflict, game theory is not concerned with these as….
A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman ….
The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of u….
It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy..
Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?.
Cooperate on move one; thereafter, do whatever the other player did the previous move..
Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skysc….
(Game theory is) essentially a structural theory. It uncovers the logical structure of a great variety of conflict situations and describes this stru….
The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters whic….
The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of coll….
The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of problems concerned with rel….
Whether game theory leads to clear-cut solutions, to vague solutions, or to impasses, it does achieve one thing. In bringing techniques of logical an….