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.

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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