BLUFFING CAN BE REWARDING IN LOVE AFFAIRS: The lesson of Cyrano de Bergerac Sergio Rinaldi DEI,...

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BLUFFING CAN BE REWARDING IN LOVE AFFAIRS:

The lesson of Cyrano de Bergerac

Sergio RinaldiDEI, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

EEP, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria

OUTLINE

• PREMISE ON MODELS

• MULTIPLE ATTRACTORS

• WHAT ABOUT LOVE AFFAIRS?

• CYRANO DE BERGERAC

• EXTENSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS

PREMISE ON MODELSCan we graphically describe the evolution of a love story?

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PREMISE ON MODELS From individuals to couples

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PREMISE ON MODELS Typical love stories

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Gone with the Wind (1936) – Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)

Gone with the Wind (1939) - Victor Fleming

Vivien Leigh Clark Gable

Scarlett O'Hara Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind (1936) – Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)

Il Canzoniere (1366) – Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374)

Laura de Sade Francesco Petrarca

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Jules et Jim (1953) – Henri-Pierre Roché (1879-1959)

Jules et Jim (1962) - François Truffaut

KatheJules Jim

Oskar Werner Jeanne Moreau Henri Serre

Jules et Jim (1953) – Henri-Pierre Roché (1879-1959)

La belle et la bête (1740)Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711-1780)

Beauty and the Beast (1991) - Walt Disney

Pride and Prejudice (1813) – Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Pride & Prejudice (2005) - Joe Wright

Keira Knightley Matthew Macfadyen

Elizabeth Bennet Fitzwilliam Darcy

ACyr = - 2 ARox = 0.6 AChr = 1

Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand (1868-1918)

Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) - Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Gérard Depardieu Anne Brochet Vincent Perez

Cyrano de Bergerac Roxane Christian de Neuvillette

MULTIPLE ATTRACTORS

a simple experiment

MULTIPLE ATTRACTORS

MULTIPLE ATTRACTORS

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MULTIPLE ATTRACTORStwo strange attractors

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MULTIPLE ATTRACTORSFrom bad to good

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WHAT ABOUT LOVE AFFAIRS?

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WHAT ABOUT LOVE AFFAIRS?

IDEA: Bluff

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WHAT ABOUT LOVE AFFAIRS?

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NO BLUFF WITH BLUFF

CYRANO DE BERGERAC

CYRANO DE BERGERAC

CYRANO DE BERGERAC

CYRANO DE BERGERAC

CYRANO DE BERGERAC

Fifteen years later

CYRANO DE BERGERAC

CYRANO DE BERGERACThe model

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CYRANO DE BERGERACThe model

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The parameters

Virtual phase: without bluffing

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Virtual phase: the expected future

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Summary: The overall story

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EXTENSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS

EXTENSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS

EXTENSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS

• high no bluffing• intermediate temporary bluffing• low permanent bluffing

These results explain the incresing use of chatting and aesthetic surgery

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