Generality to continuous negotiations, auctions, and coalition formation

Investigate whether the observed base-versus-aligned performance differences and the inferred normative bias generalize beyond the studied tasks to continuous negotiations, auctions, and coalition formation scenarios.

Background

The experiments cover bargaining, persuasion, negotiation, and repeated matrix games, revealing a base-model advantage in multi-round settings and an aligned-model advantage in one-shot or non-strategic tasks.

Testing additional domains—especially those with richer or continuous interaction structures—would assess the breadth of the reported normative–descriptive trade-off and identify boundary conditions for when alignment helps or harms behavioral prediction.