Payoff Transparency and Reward Desirability in the Prisoner's Dilemma
Location
CSU 202
Start Date
23-4-2007 10:00 AM
End Date
23-4-2007 12:00 PM
Student's Major
Anthropology
Student's College
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Mentor's Name
Paul Brown
Mentor's Department
Anthropology
Mentor's College
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Description
The Prisoner's Dilemma is an important concept in evolutionary psychology (borrowed from game theory): participants in this game choose whether to cooperate, maximizing group benefit but exposing themselves to risk, or defect, maximizing personal benefit and minimizing risk but also forgoing group benefit. Because of the non-zero-sum nature of the game, it is used as a model for many forms of human interaction. In this study, payoff transparency (i.e. the presence/absence and quality of knowledge regarding the outcome of a given interaction) and reward desirability were manipulated to assess whether either factor had an effect on subjects' rates of cooperation.
Payoff Transparency and Reward Desirability in the Prisoner's Dilemma
CSU 202
The Prisoner's Dilemma is an important concept in evolutionary psychology (borrowed from game theory): participants in this game choose whether to cooperate, maximizing group benefit but exposing themselves to risk, or defect, maximizing personal benefit and minimizing risk but also forgoing group benefit. Because of the non-zero-sum nature of the game, it is used as a model for many forms of human interaction. In this study, payoff transparency (i.e. the presence/absence and quality of knowledge regarding the outcome of a given interaction) and reward desirability were manipulated to assess whether either factor had an effect on subjects' rates of cooperation.
Recommended Citation
Holden, Jeff. "Payoff Transparency and Reward Desirability in the Prisoner's Dilemma." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 23, 2007.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2007/oral-session-03/1
