SignalingCredible threatBlackmailRevengeGame theoryHumanitiesThis paper investigates strategic thinking in the fictional world of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter." This short story has been rightly celebrated forSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
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