Prisoners’ Dilemma

Synopsis: A training package which confronts the concept of co-operation exploring notions of trust, loyalty, betrayal and defection. Two men are arrested. The police want to charge one of them with a serious crime but they have no firm evidence against either of them. So they try to get one to accuse the other of the crime. They do this by threatening each man in turn with imprisonment if they do not co-operate. The dilemma for each prisoner is should they inform on their friend and avoid jail or should they resist and stay loyal; self-interest and betrayal or loyalty and sacrifice -
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Notes: Running time and release date unknown.
Subjects: Psychology
Keywords: cooperation; game theory; self-interest

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