van Damme,E.E.C.Wright,J.2025-01-312025-01-312015van Damme, E E C 2015, Game theory : Noncooperative games. in J Wright (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. 2nd edn, vol. 9, Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 582-591. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.71048-8978008097086810.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.71048-8https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14602/19973We describe noncooperative game models and discuss game theoretic solution concepts. Some applications are also noted. Conventional theory focuses on the question ‘how will rational players play?’, and has the Nash equilibrium at its core. We discuss this concept and its interpretations, as well as refinements (perfect and stable equilibria) and relaxations (rationalizability and correlated equilibria). Motivated by experiments that show systematic theory violations, behavioral game theory aims to integrate insights from psychology to get better answers to the question ‘how do humans play?’. We provide an overview of the observed regularities and briefly sketch (beginnings of) theories of boundedly rational play.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessEntry for encyclopedia/dictionaryGeneral rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. - Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. - You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain - You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal" Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85043442177open582516032426911https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publications/ff518f2b-501f-4d99-817b-c2ba146d3d41(c) Universiteit van Tilburgvan Damme, E.E.C.Wright, J.