Preferential interactions promote blind cooperation and informed defection

It is common sense that costs and benefits should be carefully weighed before deciding on a course of action. However, we often disapprove of people who do so, even when their actual decision benefits us. For example, we prefer people who directly agree to do us a favor over those who agree only aft...

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Main Authors: Perez Escudero, Alfonso, Friedman, Jonathan, Gore, Jeff
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111197
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