Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Extortion strategies resist disciplining when higher competitiveness is rewarded with extra gain

  • Lutz Becks,
  • Manfred Milinski

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08671-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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In game theory, ‘extortionate’ tactics in two-player games are predicted to give way to ‘generous’ strategies. Here, the authors show in a human experimental sample that extortion can prevail as a strategy in games in which there is a specific reward for doing better than the other player.