The Prevalence of Cooperative Strategies in Fragmented Populations Playing a Prisoner’s Dilemma Game

• In Event: The Political Psychology of Groups

Brief Overview

In the Prisoner’s Dilemma, cooperation is not evolutionarily advantageous, but cooperative strategies can evolve in community spaces. We investigate how the evolutionary advantage of these varies with number of groups using an agent-based model.

Authors

• Margaret Hartlage, University of Notre Dame

• Thomas Mustillo, University of Notre Dame