The Development of Cooperation: Child to Adult

Abstract

Male pairs and mixed pairs of ages 8, 12, 16, and 20 participated in a standard 'Prisoner's Dilemma' game, and one in which they could alter their choices after seeing their opponent's. Overall cooperation was a decreasing monotonic function of age. Males cooperated with other males more than with females until age 20. There was a steady increase in the rate of choice reversal until age 20. Explanation of the aforementioned results was based primarily on a social learning model.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0665334

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  • Luis Escovar
  • Richard Marks
  • Stuart Bussey

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  • Dartmouth College

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  • Age Groups
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Cooperation
  • Experimental Design
  • Human Behavior
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  • Psychology

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