Inhibitory control and cooperation in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. Ghaffari, F., Wilson, M. C., & Arechar, A. A. PLoS One, 2024.
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Slides abstract bibtex 12 downloads Via an online study of over 1600 adults, we explore the connection between inhibitory control and cooperation using the strategy method to elicit probabilities of cooperation in (Iterated) Prisoner's Dilemma games. We also study the degree to which players' strategies depend on the opponent (which we term \emphreactiveness). We find a significant small positive association between inhibitory control and cooperation and between inhibitory control and reactiveness. We find a larger positive association between performance on the Cognitive Reflection Test and cooperation (respectively reactiveness). Our substantial data set also allows us to consider other features such as gender, race, age, risk attitude and trust attitude, and compare with results in the literature. We find, in particular, a clear difference in strategies between subjects self-reporting as white and those reporting at least one non-white racial classification, between male and female subjects, and between participants aged over 56 (top quartile) and those aged under 40 (bottom quartile). We also find interesting differences in the effect of these demographic features on inhibitory control and cognitive ability.
@Article{GhWA2024,
author = {Ghaffari, Fatemeh and Wilson, Mark C. and Arechar, Antonio Alonso},
abstract = {Via an online study of over 1600 adults, we explore the connection
between inhibitory control and cooperation using the strategy method to
elicit probabilities of cooperation in (Iterated) Prisoner's Dilemma
games. We also study the degree to which players' strategies depend on
the opponent (which we term \emph{reactiveness}).
We find a significant small positive association between inhibitory
control and cooperation and between inhibitory control and reactiveness.
We find a larger positive association between performance on the
Cognitive Reflection Test and cooperation (respectively reactiveness).
Our substantial data set also allows us to consider other features such
as gender, race, age, risk attitude and trust attitude, and compare with
results in the literature. We find, in particular, a clear difference
in strategies between subjects self-reporting as white and those
reporting at least one non-white racial classification, between male
and female subjects, and between participants aged over 56 (top
quartile) and those aged under 40 (bottom quartile). We also find
interesting differences in the effect of these demographic features on
inhibitory control and cognitive ability. },
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