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SUBMITTER: Niella T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4721918 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Niella Tamara T Stier-Moses Nicolás N Sigman Mariano M
PloS one 20160121 1
We examine the hypothesis that driven by a competition heuristic, people don't even reflect or consider whether a cooperation strategy may be better. As a paradigmatic example of this behavior we propose the zero-sum game fallacy, according to which people believe that resources are fixed even when they are not. We demonstrate that people only cooperate if the competitive heuristic is explicitly overridden in an experiment in which participants play two rounds of a game in which competition is s ...[more]