We examine the effect of unilateral and mutual partner
selection in the context of prisoner's dilemmas experimentally.
Subjects play simultaneously several finitely repeated
two-person prisoner's dilemma games. We find that unilateral
choice is the best system. It leads to low defection and
fewer singles than with mutual choice. Furthermore, with the
unilateral choice setup we are able to show that intending
defectors are more likely to try to avoid a match than
intending cooperators. We compare ...
We examine the effect of unilateral and mutual partner
selection in the context of prisoner's dilemmas experimentally.
Subjects play simultaneously several finitely repeated
two-person prisoner's dilemma games. We find that unilateral
choice is the best system. It leads to low defection and
fewer singles than with mutual choice. Furthermore, with the
unilateral choice setup we are able to show that intending
defectors are more likely to try to avoid a match than
intending cooperators. We compare our results of multiple
games with single game PD-experiments and find no difference
in aggregate behavior. Hence the multiple game technique is
robust and might therefore be an important tool in the future
for testing the use of mixed strategies.
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