Discounting, reciprocity and cooperation

描述（由申请人提供）：这项研究探讨了如何战略 互惠性和时间折扣相互作用影响动物合作 (i.e.他们不能打太大的折扣，他们必须实施某种形式的 互惠）。这项研究开发了一种技术，以评估强度 在合作的情况下贴现，并使用这种技术来研究 相互作用的时间组织如何影响 贴现这些评估提供了必要的背景， 测试关于策略折扣交互作用的想法。实验使用 用操作心理学方法对笼养蓝鸦（Cyanocitta cristata）在控制支付游戏中。这项研究涉及的基本问题 关于社会行为的组织。特别是问将军 延迟利益的评估问题影响合作和自私。 了解动物的社会行为，以及塑造它的力量， 通过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.