Exploiting a cognitive bias promotes cooperation in social dilemma experiments

The decoy effect refers to the fact that the presence of a third option can shift people’s preferences between two other options even though the third option is inferior to both. Here, the authors show how the decoy effect can enhance cooperation in a social dilemma, the repeated prisoner’s dilemma....

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Main Authors: Zhen Wang, Marko Jusup, Lei Shi, Joung-Hun Lee, Yoh Iwasa, Stefano Boccaletti
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/a3ded4bb1d8343e986aea695264e7cb5
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