Probably for the same reason poor people are less selfish than rich people (there’s ample evidence for this): the harder one’s life, the more one understands that we depend on each other and that human success is predicated on being able to cooperate.
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Prisoners are less selfish than students: “They Finally Tested The ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ On Actual Prisoners — And The Results Were Not What You Would Expect” (Business Insider Australia)
Posted: 2013/07/24 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: altruism, behavior, cooperative, game theory, microeconomics, Prisoner's dilemma, selfish
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