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Attraction to partner and conflict of interest were experimentally varied for like sex pairs playing a prisoner’s dilemma game. Cooperation was more frequent for low conflict of interest than for high, and females cooperated more than did males; there was some tendency for cooperation to vary with attraction to partner.
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This research was supported by Grant MH 13229-01 to the second author by the National Institute of Mental Health.
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Fisher, R., Smith, W.P. Conflict of interest and attraction in the development of cooperation. Psychon Sci 14, 154–155 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332761
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