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This does not at all explain human behaviour: Most people would not shovel all the snow themselves while their counterpart chills in their car. And many people
by freech 9y ago
This does not at all explain human behaviour: Most people would not shovel all the snow themselves while their counterpart chills in their car. And many people cooperate in prisoner's dilemma situations.
What explains human behaviour is that with every action we program ourselves to follow certain strategies and rules and that others can judge to some extent which strategies we programmed ourselves to follow. Thus we have an incentive to follow strategies that lead others to trust us, so that we'll have more opportunities for cooperation in the future.
- GuB-42 9y agoThis is tit-for-tat. Always start by cooperating and then do the same as the other party : cooperate if he does, retaliate if he doesn't. It is the most effective strategy in both games.
- freech 9y agoNo it's not. What needs to be explained is why you cooperate if you know that you will never play with the same person again. And the answer is that by doing so you get in the habit of automatically cooperating in similar situations in the future and other people recognize this habit and trust you.