Lecture on "Lower Alertness entails More Cooperation: Evidence from Prisoner's Dilemma and Coordination Games."

November 24, 2023

Speaker: Morimitsu Kurino, professor, Keio University

Date: November 24, 2023

Time: 14:30

Location: Room 400, Shaw Science Museum, Shandong University

Sponsor: The Center for Economic Research, Shandong University

Abstract:

We report an experiment on the relationship between sleep and cooperative behavior by using Electroencephalogram (EEG) measuring devices and Psychomotor Vigilance Test (PVT) in measuring subjects’ alertness. In this experiment, two types of games—prisoner’s dilemmas and coordination games—were conducted by controlling subjects’ sleep. We found that lower alertness measured by PVT entails more cooperation in both games. On the other hand, we did not observe a significant relationship between sleeping time and cooperation.

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