Fusing enacted and expected mimicry generates a winning strategy that promotes the evolution of cooperation

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

Volumn 110, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 10229-10233

  Fischer, Ilan ^a   Frid, Alex ^a   Goerg, Sebastian J ^b,c   Levin, Simon A ^d   Rubenstein, Daniel I ^d   Selten, Reinhard ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON COLLECTIVE GOODS   (Germany)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conflict resolution; Prisoner's dilemma; SERS; TFT; WSLS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFLICT; COOPERATION; HUMAN; LEARNING ALGORITHM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUBJECTIVE EXPECTED RELATIVE SIMILARITY; TIT FOR TAT; WIN STAY LOSE SHIFT; WORKING MEMORY;

CONFLICT RESOLUTION; PRISONER'S DILEMMA; SERS; TFT; WSLS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEGOTIATING; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE;

EID: 84879314902     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308221110     Document Type: Article

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