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The rise of cooperation in correlated matching prisoners dilemma: An experiment Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Chun-Lei Yang ()
Ching-Syang Jack Yue
I-Tang Yu
Recently, there has been a Renaissance for multi-level selection models to explain the persistence of unselfish behavior in social dilemmas, in which assortative/correlated matching plays an important role. In the current study of a multi-round prisoners’ dilemma experiment, we introduce two correlated matching procedures that match subjects with similar action histories together. We discover significant treatment effects, compared to the control procedure of random matching. Particularly with the weighted history matching procedure we find bifurcations regarding group outcomes. Some groups converge to the all-defection equilibrium even more pronouncedly than the control groups do, while other groups generate much higher rate of cooperation, which is also associated with higher relative reward for a typical cooperative action. All in all, the data show that cooperation does have a much better chance to persist in a correlated/assortative-matching environment, as predicted in the literature. Copyright Economic Science Association 2007
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Volume (Year): 10 (2007)
Issue (Month): 1 (March)
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Keywords: Prisoners’ dilemma ; Cooperation ; Experiment ; Unselfish behavior ; Evolution ; Assortative matching ; Correlated matching ; Multi-level selection ; References listed on IDEAS Please report citation or reference errors to , or , if you are the registered author of the cited work, log in to your RePEc Author Service profile , click on "citations" and make appropriate adjustments.:
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