Betrayal or cooperation? Analytical investigation of behavior drivers – Phys.org

When looking at humanity from a macroscopic perspective, there are numerous examples of people cooperating to form societies, countries, religions, and other groupings.
Yet at the basic two-person level, people tend to betray each other, as found in social dilemma games like the prisoner’s dilemma, even though people would receive a better payoff if they cooperated among themselves.
The topic of cooperation and how and when people start trusting one another has been studied by various research…

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