Discounting, reciprocity and cooperation

描述(由申请者提供)：这项研究探索如何具有战略意义 互惠和时间折扣交互作用影响动物合作 (即，他们不能打太大折扣，他们必须实施某种形式的 互惠)。这项研究开发了一种技术来评估 在合作情况下的贴现，并使用这一技术来研究 互动的时间组织如何影响 打折。这些评估提供了必要的背景知识，直接 测试有关战略折扣互动的想法。这些实验使用了 操作心理学技术在圈养蓝鸟测试中的应用 Cristata)在受控的支付游戏中。这项研究解决了一些基本问题 关于社会行为的组织。具体地问，将军是如何 评估延迟收益的问题会影响合作和自私。 对动物社会行为的理解，以及塑造它的力量，将会 通过为以下方面提供基础来扩大我们对人类社会性的理解 比较和概括。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This study explores how strategic reciprocity and temporal discounting interact to influence animal cooperation (i.e. they must not discount too strongly, and they must implement some form of reciprocity). This study develops a technique to assess the strength of discounting within a cooperative situation, and uses this technique to study how the temporal organization of an interaction affects the intensity of discounting. These assessments provide the background necessary to directly test ideas about strategy-discounting interactions. The experiments use the techniques of operant psychology to test captive blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) in controlled payoff games. This study addresses basic questions about the organization of social behavior. Asking specifically, how the general problem of evaluating delayed benefits influences cooperation and selfishness. An understanding of animal social behavior, and the forces that shape it, will enlarge our understanding of human sociality by providing a basis for comparison and generalization.