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Charlotte Pierce

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  • trategy of simple reciprocity which cooperates on the first move and then does whatever the other player did on the previous move
  • forgiveness
  • provocability
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  • clarity of behavior
  • frontline soldiers often refrained from shooting to kill – provided their restraint was reciprocated by the soldiers on the other side.
  • reciprocate cooperation
  • mutual restraint possible was the static nature
  • individuals involved do not have to be rational
  • The use of reciprocity can be enough to make defection unproductive.
  • no central authority
  • For cooperation to prove stable, the future must have a sufficiently large shadow.
  • chance of meeting again
  • single individual who offers cooperation cannot prosper
  • Cooperation can begin with small clusters.
  • provocable
  • forgiving
  • overall level of cooperation tends to go up and not down
  • ratchet
  • participants know they will be dealing with each other again and again
  • Arms control could also evolve tacitly.
  • The foundation of cooperation is not really trust, but the durability of the relationship.
  • conditions are ripe for them to build a stable pattern of cooperation
  • value of provocability
  • respond sooner,
  • responding right away, it gives the quickest possible feedback
  • Once cooperation based upon reciprocity gets established in a population, it cannot be overcome even by a cluster of individuals who try to exploit the others.
  • mple reciprocity succeeds without doing better than anyone with whom it interacts. It succeeds by eliciting cooperation from others, not by defeating them
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    Robert Axelrod Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Michigan, AnnArbor. Dr. Axelrod is a member of the American National Academy of Sciencesand the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His honors include a MacArthurFoundation Fellowship for the period 1987 through 1992. Under what conditions will cooperation emerge in a world of egoistswithout central authority? This question has intrigued people for a longtime. We all know that people are not angels, and that they tend to lookafter themselves and their own first. Yet we also know that cooperationdoes occur and that our civilization is based upon it
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