The effect of power asymmetries on cooperation and punishment in a prisoner's dilemma game.

Recent work has suggested that punishment is detrimental because punishment provokes retaliation, not cooperation, resulting in lower overall payoffs. These findings may stem from the unrealistic assumption that all players are equal: in reality individuals are expected to vary in the power with whi...

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Main Authors: Jonathan E Bone, Brian Wallace, Redouan Bshary, Nichola J Raihani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0117183&type=printable