The Political Scientist Robert Axelrod Once Held a Computer Tournament

question 42

Multiple Choice

The political scientist Robert Axelrod once held a computer tournament designed to determine the most successful strategy for approaching the prisoner's dilemma (the strategy that would win out most often on a sustained basis) . What he found was that the most successful strategy was loosely based on a pattern of ____.

• A)cooperating first and then shifting into competing
• B)constant cooperation
• C)reciprocity
• D)competing first and then shifting into cooperating

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