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Writing this book has been a long and adventurous journey on which I embarked five years ago, in 2018. Now that I have completed the journey, I can say that I enjoyed every moment of it, and I hope that the reader will sense this while read- ing the book. I would now like to take the opportunity to thank a few people who have been fundamental for writing this book. Important parts of the book are based on research that I have carried out together with my coauthors Christian Bach and Stephan Jagau. With Christian Bach, I have developed a line of research in which we explore the reasoning foundations of games with incomplete information, which has contributed to parts of Chapters 5 and 6. It has always been a huge pleasure to work together with you, Christian, and to have you come over at my office in Maastricht for some nice research sessions at the whiteboard, followed by a lunch at our favorite café in Maastricht. I hope we can continue our collaboration for many years to come. And, importantly, thanks for being such a good friend. Some years ago, Stephan Jagau and I have started working on the reasoning foun- dations for psychological games, leading to insights that are discussed in Chapter 8. Recently, our collaboration mainly took place via zoom, because Stephan was based in California and I am based in the Netherlands. I cherish these sessions tremen- dously, and I hope we can expand our collaboration during the next few years, now that Stephan is based in Nottingham – a bit closer to Maastricht. I would also like to thank Stephan for our discussions on one-person decision problems that helped to shape Chapter 2. Parts of Chapters 8 and 9 have been built upon the work of my former PhD student Niels Mourmans, who devoted his PhD dissertation to the theoretical foundations of psychological games. I can still remember the many fruitful and enjoyable sessions we had at my office, together with the other supervisor Elias Tsakas. It resulted in a very nice PhD dissertation. I would also like to thank Yumo Chen, Li Junkang, Shuige Liu, and, again, Niels Mourmans, who read parts of the book and provided me with some highly appreciated feedback. In 2023, I have given a two day mini-course based on this book at the Universi- dad Carlos III de Madrid and at my own Maastricht University. I am grateful to the audiences at these mini-courses for their feedback and comments. An important part of this book has been written while I was visiting the Department of Economics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, in 2022 and 2023. I would like to thank Universidad Carlos III de Madrid for their hospitality. My former colleagues at this university, and the wonderful city of Madrid, have been a strong source of inspiration for the book. Right from the beginning, the collaboration with Cambridge University Press has been very smooth and pleasant. I would like to send a special word of gratitude to the reviewers for their excellent feedback on my manuscript and proposal and to Philip Good for his excellent help during the past year. Last but not least, I would like to pay a tribute to my friends, my brother and sister, my parents, my children, and my wife for their continuous mental support, which filled the journey of writing this book with warm and sunny days.