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Individual variation evades the Prisoner's Dilemma

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, September 2002
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Title
Individual variation evades the Prisoner's Dilemma
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, September 2002
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-2-15
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Authors

Dominic DP Johnson, Pavel Stopka, Josh Bell

Abstract

The Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) is a widely used paradigm to study cooperation in evolutionary biology, as well as in fields as diverse as moral philosophy, sociology, economics and politics. Players are typically assumed to have fixed payoffs for adopting certain strategies, which depend only on the strategy played by the opponent. However, fixed payoffs are not realistic in nature. Utility functions and the associated payoffs from pursuing certain strategies vary among members of a population with numerous factors. In biology such factors include size, age, social status and expected life span; in economics they include socio-economic status, personal preference and past experience; and in politics they include ideology, political interests and public support. Thus, no outcome is identical for any two different players.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
India 4 3%
United Kingdom 2 2%
Germany 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Unknown 106 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 32 28%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 19%
Student > Master 16 14%
Student > Bachelor 9 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 4%
Other 18 16%
Unknown 13 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 50 43%
Psychology 15 13%
Environmental Science 14 12%
Social Sciences 5 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 3%
Other 10 9%
Unknown 18 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 November 2014.
All research outputs
#6,568,590
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#1,467
of 3,714 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,468
of 49,151 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#1
of 3 outputs
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