Re: New article on cooperation the brain

2002-07-18 Thread chris macrae
jolly good, perhaps prospective CEOs should be scanned chris macrae [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.valuetrue.com - Original Message - From: john hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 July 2002 17:03 PM Subject: New article on cooperation the brain Just published today in the

Re: New article on cooperation the brain

2002-07-18 Thread Cyril Morong
The news release mentions that they played a prisoner's dilemma game and that all of the subjects were women. It did not say exactly what the payoffs were but they were awarded money. The article also said: Mutual cooperation was the most common outcome in games played with presumed human

Re: New article on cooperation the brain

2002-07-18 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
When I play the prisoner's dilemma in class, I see very little cooperation. I know one researcher who has repeated a trust game (not prisoner's dilemma) with many classes of students and groups of business men. He finds that students are remarkably untrustworthy and businessmen tend to give

Re: New article on cooperation the brain

2002-07-18 Thread CyrilMorong
In a message dated 7/18/02 4:36:44 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I play the prisoner's dilemma in class, I see very little cooperation. I know one researcher who has repeated a trust game (not prisoner's dilemma) with many classes of students and groups of business

Re: New article on cooperation the brain

2002-07-18 Thread john hull
--- Cyril Morong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I am running the game wrong somehow and that is why I get little cooperation. Are you teaching on the West Coast?! Just kidding. (Maybe not entirely*) I recall from my psych days that a notable thing about the prisoner's dilemma is that

Re: New article on cooperation the brain PD??

2002-07-18 Thread john hull
--- fabio guillermo rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldn't be surprised if there were a similar difference when you P.D. Can anybody confirm or reject this claim about students? I'm awfully sorry, what does P.D. mean? Thanks, jsh __ Do You

Re: New article on cooperation the brain

2002-07-18 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
The part about students being socially isolated from each other and lacking social experienceis interesting. Are there any studies that might confirm this? I teach at a community college, so the students probabl mix with each other less than they do at other colleges. If I recall