The Future of Social Experimenting
arXiv:1012.4182 · doi:10.1073/pnas.1000140107
Abstract
Recent lab experiments by Traulsen et al. for the spatial prisoner's dilemma suggest that exploratory behavior of human subjects prevents cooperation through neighborhood interactions over experimentally accessible time spans. This indicates that new theoretical and experimental efforts are needed to explore the mechanisms underlying a number of famous puzzles in the social sciences.
For an extended version with animated computer simulation see http://www.soms.ethz.ch/research/socialexperimenting
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