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What Should Rational Cognitive Misers Do?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Iain McLean ,
John M. Orbell  and
Robyn M. Dawes
Iain McLean
Affiliation:
University of Warwick
John M. Orbell
Affiliation:
University of Oregon
Robyn M. Dawes
Affiliation:
Carnegie Mellon University
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Abstract

In the June 1991 issue of this Review John Orbell and Robyn Dawes have argued that prisoner's dilemma games are shaped, in part, by “cognitive misers”—players who assume other players are like themselves. In such games, this results in more play and in a higher expected payoff by cooperators than by defectors, lain McLean agrees with the conclusions of Orbell and Dawes but takes issue with their reasons and their model. In turn, Orbell and Dawes retort, arguing that players in prisoner's dilemma games do not respond as McLean assumes they will.

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Controversy
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American Political Science Review , Volume 85 , Issue 4 , December 1991 , pp. 1417 - 1420
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1991

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