We report insights into the behavior of prisoners in dilemma situations that so famously carry their name. We compare female inmates and students in a simultaneous and a sequential Prisoner's Dilemma. In the simultaneous Prisoner's Dilemma, the cooperation rate among inmates exceeds the rate of cooperating students. Relative to the simultaneous dilemma, cooperation among first-movers in the sequential Prisoner's Dilemma increases for students, but not for inmates. Students and inmates behave identically as second movers. Hence, we find a similar and significant fraction of inmates and students to hold social preferences. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.
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Khadjavi, M., & Lange, A. (2013). Prisoners and their dilemma. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 92, 163–175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2013.05.015
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