Evolution: The value of information

Adam Bear and David G. Rand ()
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Adam Bear: School of Management, Economics, and Institute of Social Policy Studies, Yale University
David G. Rand: School of Management, Economics, and Institute of Social Policy Studies, Yale University

Nature Human Behaviour, 2017, vol. 1, issue 8, 1-2

Abstract: Modelling and experiments have shown that strategic information can undermine ‘altruistic’ cooperation. Using a model that varies the distribution of costs for finding out, it is now shown that information can also promote self-interested ‘strategic’ cooperation.

Date: 2017
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