Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma contains strategies that dominate any evolutionary opponent

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 10409-10413

  Press, William H ^a   Dyson, Freeman J ^b  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution of cooperation; Game theory; Tit for tat

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COOPERATION; GAME; HUMAN; ITERATED PRISONER DILEMMA; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; THEORY OF MIND;

GAME THEORY; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PRISONERS;

EID: 84862996838     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206569109     Document Type: Article

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