Why Copy Others? Insights from the Social Learning Strategies Tournament
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- 9 April 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 328 (5975) , 208-213
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1184719
Abstract
It Pays to Be a Copy Cat: Does it pay to copy what others do? Rendell et al. (p. 208 ) elected to copy Robert Axelrod's 1979 tournament in which strategies for playing the iterated prisoner's dilemma game were pitted against each other until an overall winner emerged—the tit-for-tat strategy. In the 2008 tournament, 100 social learning strategies designed to cope with a changing environment competed against each other; the winning strategy involved sampling the behaviors of other players periodically, rather than exploring the environment alone.Keywords
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