Imagine this: You and an acquaintance, let's call him Patrick, have the untoward idea of robbing a bank during broad daylight. To your chagrin, it doesn't work out and you both end up downtown. The ...

Cooperation is essential for the survival of biological life, but how can cooperation emerge if cheating always offers the ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from One Room: Prisoner’s Dilemma 6 People – 1 Room – 1 way to escape. Welcome to One Room – Prisoner’s Dilemma. Games metadata is powered by IGDB.com The ...

The “prisoner’s dilemma” is one of the most famous ideas in game theory. It even appeared in the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, which told the story of mathematician John Nash. For decades, this ...

This is the second post in a series about America's disastrous gun epidemic. Here is the first. We have a gun problem. One way to conceptualize its origin is via game theory, specifically the Prisoner ...

Citations: Murnighan, J. Keith, Alvin Roth. 1983. Expecting continued play in prisoner's dilemma games: A test of several models. Journal of Conflict Resolution. (2)297-300.

Everyone on earth takes a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only ...