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SUBMITTER: Bone JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4309618 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bone Jonathan E JE Wallace Brian B Bshary Redouan R Raihani Nichola J NJ
PloS one 20150128 1
Recent work has suggested that punishment is detrimental because punishment provokes retaliation, not cooperation, resulting in lower overall payoffs. These findings may stem from the unrealistic assumption that all players are equal: in reality individuals are expected to vary in the power with which they can punish defectors. Here, we allowed strong players to interact with weak players in an iterated prisoner's dilemma game with punishment. Defecting players were most likely to switch to coop ...[more]