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prisoner's Dilemma


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The best-known example from game theory, which illustrates how people behave in strategic situations. The Prisoner's Dilemma is based on some version of the following situation: two men have been ...

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Prisoner's Dilemma
in Dictionary of the Social Sciences Length: 560 words
Prisoner's Dilemma
in A Dictionary of Sociology (3 rev) Length: 256 words
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in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (4) Length: 148 words
prisoner's dilemma
in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2) Length: 241 words

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