If subjects took Agent B's perspective and inhibited their self-perspective during mental inference, responses should be slower in the inconsistent rather than consistent conditions.
But it was unclear why it has taken agents more than two months to begin digging.
A tip steered F.B.I. agents to Mr. Gilliland's illegal activities, but it took agents two years to build the case.
"All of my life I was taking agents to lunch and I was looking forward to getting my turn," he said.
The arrests were the culmination of an eight-month FBI investigation that took agents "deep into a hidden culture of hatred and violence", Beall said.
It takes agents as greedy players want to maximize their own gain.
The most frequently taken agents included "anti-headache flour", coldrex, acetaminophen and "pain relieved pill".
The large difference in the proportion of subjects taking agents for dyslipidemia (mainly statins) between men and women also might have influenced the results.
If there is no equilibrium, the algorithm chooses a second-best solution (one which produces the most favorable outcome for the agent, taking other agents' strategies as given).
