People punish defection, not failures to conform to the majority
Abstract Do people punish others for defecting or for failing to conform to the majority? In two experiments, we manipulated whether the participants’ partners cooperated or defected in the majority of the trials of a Prisoner’s Dilemma game. The effects of this base-rate manipulation on cooperation...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Scientific Reports |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50414-8 |