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The Prisoner's Dilemma and Cooperation

differenceblog Apr 18, 2007 08:24

The Prisoner's Dilemma is an economic/altruism game model popular for testing gender differences in cooperation. John List (2006) studied the results of the game show Friend or Foe? which had a Prisoner's Dilemma-type premise, and found not only that all-male groups cooperated less than all-female groups, but that males tended to cooperate less ( Read more... )

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