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In game theory, a focal point (or Schelling point) is a solution that people tend to choose by default in the absence of communication. The concept was introduced by the American economist Thomas Schelling in his book The Strategy of Conflict (1960). Schelling states that "(p)eople can often concert their intentions or expectations with others if each knows that the other is trying to do the same" in a cooperative situation (at page 57), so their action would converge on a focal point which has some kind of prominence compared with the environment. However, the conspicuousness of the focal point depends on time, place and people themselves. It may not be a definite solution.

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  1. Schelling, Thomas C. (1960). The strategy of conflict (First ed.). Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-84031-7. 
  2. Mehta, Judith; Starmer, Chris; Sugden, Robert (1994). "The Nature of Salience: An Experimental Investigation of Pure Coordination Games". The American Economic Review 84 (3): 658–673. ISSN 0002-8282.  http://www.worldcat.org/issn/0002-8282
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  4. Camerer, Colin F.; Ho, Teck-Hua; Chong, Juin-Kuan (1 August 2004). "A Cognitive Hierarchy Model of Games" (in en). The Quarterly Journal of Economics 119 (3): 861–898. doi:10.1162/0033553041502225. ISSN 0033-5533. https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/119/3/861/1938841. 
  5. Bacharach, Michael (1 June 1999). "Interactive team reasoning: A contribution to the theory of co-operation". Research in Economics 53 (2): 117–147. doi:10.1006/reec.1999.0188. ISSN 1090-9443.  https://dx.doi.org/10.1006%2Freec.1999.0188
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