Translucent Players: Explaining Cooperative Behavior in Social Dilemmas

In the last few decades, numerous experiments have shown that humans do not always behave so as to maximize their material payoff. Cooperative behavior when non-cooperation is a dominant strategy (with respect to the material payoffs) is particularly puzzling. Here we propose a novel approach to exp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Valerio Capraro, Joseph Y. Halpern
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2016-06-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.07533v1