New research shows people are better at strategic reasoning than was thought

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 17:30 in Psychology & Sociology

When we make decisions based on what we think someone else will do, in anything from chess to warfare, we must use reason to infer the other's next move -- or next three or more moves -- to know what we must do. This so-called recursive reasoning ability in humans has been thought to be somewhat limited.

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