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Peer reviewedRapoport, Anatol – Simulation & Gaming, 1995
Traces the roots of social trap situations and describes a parasitism-symbiosis model, showing that when each organism attempts to maximize its survival potential without regard for the other's, neither does as well as when they behave collectively. Discusses a model social trap situation, "Prisoner's Dilemma" ("PD") and a…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Cooperation, Evolution, Games
