Resilient cooperators stabilize long-run cooperation in Prisoner’s Dilemma
Lead author of the paper here; AMA.<p>The main novelty about this work is that we had 100 people play repeated PD for a <i>month</i> instead of &lt;1 hour which is typical in behavioral experiments, in an attempt to make rather stylized cooperation experiments in the lab closer to real life (admittedly, it is still only a small step.)<p>The findings can be summarized in a sentence as &quot;a minority of nice people can make everyone better off.&quot;