Learning to Cooperate: Learning Networks and the Problem of Altruism.

We explore how two populations learn to cooperate with each other in the absence of institutional support. Individuals play iterated prisoner's dilemmas with the other population, but learn about successful strategies from their own population. Our agent-based evolutionary models reconfirm that coop...

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Publicado en:American Journal of Political Science Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 572 - 588
Autores principales: Scholz, John T., Wang, Cheng-Lung
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell July 2009
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        Cooperativeness
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        Psychology of learning
        Team learning approach in education
        Political games
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          Cooperativeness
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