Risk sensitivity and theory of mind in human coordination
Fig 5
Markov stag-hunt reward functions.
Darker colors indicate larger rewards. Agents receive a reward at each time step depending on their state and the state of the other agent. The hare state (state 3) can be obtained regardless of where the other agent is. This also allows us to model situations in which an agent can only obtain a big reward if the other agent is willing to coordinate with him. In our case, the stag state (i.e., state 11) has one such big, but difficult to obtain reward.