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Eighty college Ss in like-sexed dyads played a 100 trial Prisoner’s Dilemma game with a nonmatrix format. Payment schedule and sequence of choices were each varied at two levels and were not found to be related to the amount of cooperation to a statistically significant extent. Sex of the dyad was not related to cooperation, which supported previous data from games of less than 100 trials. The overall level of cooperation was comparable to the two previous studies using the same format.
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This work was supported in part by NINDB Grant Number 5-T1-NB-5362-04 and by NICHHD grant number HD-00870-03.
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Evans, G.W., Crumbaugh, C.M. Payment schedule, sequence of choice, and cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma game. Psychon Sci 5, 87–88 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328294
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