If constrained maximizers can achieve cooperative outcomes within the same payoff matrix, the inefficient outcome follows from a specific psychological assumption, not situational logic alone.

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Constrained maximizers(as used in game theory and decision theory): People who try to get the best possible outcome for themselves, but only within certain limits or rules they've decided to follow.
Cooperative outcomes(as used in game theory): Results that happen when people work together and both (or all) end up better off than they would have if they acted selfishly.
Inefficient outcome(as used in economics and game theory): A result where people could have done better for themselves overall, but didn't—meaning resources or well-being were wasted.
Payoff matrix(in game theory and decision-making): A table that shows all the possible outcomes when different people or groups make different choices, so you can see which combinations of choices lead to the best or worst results.
psychological assumption(in philosophy of mind and communication): An unstated belief about how human minds work or what someone is thinking, which we assume to be true without proving it.
situational logic(Popper's methodology for the social sciences): Popper's term for what is essentially rational choice theory — explaining social phenomena by reconstructing the rational choices agents make given their situation — proposed as the correct method for the social sciences.

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