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win-stay lose-shift: a standalone construct

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Evolution of cooperation

a strategy that repeats its last move after a good payoff and switches after a bad one, shown to outperform tit-for-tat in repeated dilemmas with errors.

In evolution of cooperation, win-stay lose-shift refers to a strategy that repeats its last move after a good payoff and switches after a bad one, shown to outperform tit-for-tat in repeated dilemmas with errors. This meaning comes from Nowak (1993) in Nature.[1]

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References

Nowak, M., & Sigmund, K. (1993). A strategy of win-stay, lose-shift that outperforms tit-for-tat in the Prisoner's Dilemma game. Nature, 364(6432), 56-58. https://doi.org/10.1038/364056a0

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