Is it better to cooperate or defect? In this game, students participate in a real life prisoner's dilemma game.
Each student has a partner and a red and black playing card to indicate which of two choices the student prefers. Each choice corresponds to a different payoff. There are five rounds and the total payoff in each round is determined by what both students in the partnership choose. The idea for this game came from a paper written by Charles A. Holt (University of Virginia, Department of Economics) and Monica Capra (Emory University, Department of Economics). For instructions and the paper, see below.
game.doc | 32 KB | |
classroom games.pdf | 29 KB |
See also: Game, Observational, GOV 20: Foundations of Comparative Politics, Foundations of Comparative Politics, Theoretical/Abstract, Government, Data for Discussion, Grossman, Shelby, Authentic Learning (Simulations, Lab, Field), Expanding Depth and Breadth, Group & Cooperative Learning; Students as Classroom Leaders, Revealing & Dealing with Misconceptions, Collaborate, Make Real World Connections to Course Material, Develop Subject Specific Intuitions, Full Class, Whole class, Pair, Social Science, Single Class