Resilient cooperators stabilize long-run cooperation in the finitely repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma

Studying the dynamics of learning in repeated games of cooperation is complicated by the short duration of traditional experiments. Here the authors perform a virtual prisoner's dilemma game over twenty consecutive days, finding that a minority of resilient co-operators can sustain cooperation...

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Main Authors: Andrew Mao, Lili Dworkin, Siddharth Suri, Duncan J. Watts
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/98f15815b87d4a3cb6c361086eaa022d
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Summary:Studying the dynamics of learning in repeated games of cooperation is complicated by the short duration of traditional experiments. Here the authors perform a virtual prisoner's dilemma game over twenty consecutive days, finding that a minority of resilient co-operators can sustain cooperation indefinitely.