Forgiver triumphs in alternating Prisoner's Dilemma.

Cooperative behavior, where one individual incurs a cost to help another, is a wide spread phenomenon. Here we study direct reciprocity in the context of the alternating Prisoner's Dilemma. We consider all strategies that can be implemented by one and two-state automata. We calculate the payoff...

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Main Authors: Benjamin M Zagorsky, Johannes G Reiter, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Martin A Nowak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3861238?pdf=render