Strategic game players who possess any special information will try to conceal it if they will be hurt when other players find out the truth. And they will take actions that, when appropriately interpreted, reveal information that works favorably for them. They know that their actions, like their faces, leak information. They will choose actions that promote favorable leakage; such strategies are called signaling. They will act in ways that reduce or eliminate unfavorable leakage; this is signal jamming. It typically consists of mimicking something that is appropriate under different
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