Correlates of cooperation in a one-shot high-stakes televised prisoners' dilemma.

Explaining cooperation between non-relatives is a puzzle for both evolutionary biology and the social sciences. In humans, cooperation is often studied in a laboratory setting using economic games such as the prisoners' dilemma. However, such experiments are sometimes criticized for being playe...

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Main Authors: Maxwell N Burton-Chellew, Stuart A West
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3317651?pdf=render