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sucker: a standalone construct

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sucker1 CONSTRUCTSucker's payoffRAPOPORT · PAYOFF S

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Game theory

the worst Prisoner's Dilemma outcome, the payoff a player gets for cooperating while the other defects.

In game theory, the sucker's payoff is the worst outcome in a Prisoner's Dilemma: the value a player gets for cooperating while the other defects, conventionally labelled S and set below the payoffs for mutual cooperation, mutual defection, and successful defection. Rapoport and Chammah's 1965 Prisoner's Dilemma formalized the game and the payoff ordering (ranked T > R > P > S) that makes cooperation risky. The referent is a specific cell in a payoff matrix defining the cost of being exploited, unrelated to a plant shoot beyond the colloquial meaning of being taken advantage of.[1]

Unit
The payoff value assigned to a cooperator who is defected on
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Specified as the lowest entry (S) in the Prisoner's Dilemma payoff matrix

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References

  1. Rapoport, A., & Chammah, A. M. (1965). Prisoner's dilemma: A study in conflict and cooperation. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472061655

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