Prisoner’s Dilemma and Cooperation

Dan Smith

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Prisoner’s Dilemma and Cooperation

Dan Smith

Bristol Medical School (PHS)

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The prisoner’s dilemma (PD) is a two-player game where there is a conflict between individual and group interests. Overall, both players do better if they both cooperate, yet each individual player does better if they defect. However, if both players defect then they do worse than if they both cooperate, hence the dilemma. This deceptively simple game has been used extensively to explore the conditions under which cooperation can evolve.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science
Editors	Todd Shackelford, Viviana Weekes-Shackelford
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-16999-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3757-1
Publication status	Published - 29 Sept 2018

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