Intelligent people defect more in a one-shot prisoner’s dilemma game.

Kanazawa, Satoshi; Fontaine, Linus

doi:10.1037/npe0000010

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“…There is, however, also evidence that goes into the opposite direction. Kanazawa and Fontaine (2013) report higher defection rates among more intelligent participants in a one-shot PD. Furthermore, using the strategy method to uncover different cooperative types in a public good game (PGG), Nielsen et al (2014) find that strict free-riders have higher scores in the cognitive reflection test (CRT) (Frederick, 2005) than conditional or unconditional cooperators.…”

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Smart or selfish – When smart guys finish nice

Lohse

2016

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

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In three different variants of an one-shot public good game I analyze the relationship between cooperation and cognitive abilities, assessed through the cognitive reflection test (CRT). In a between-subjects design, the baseline case is contrasted with two treatment conditions that allow to control for two potentially moderating factors: By employing a test for the presence of confusion, the first condition scrutinizes whether higher cognitive abilities are correlated with cooperation proper or simply grant a better understanding of the incentive structure. The second condition explores the proposition that the link between cognitive abilities and cooperation could depend on the complexity of the decision situation. To exogenously create a cognitively more demanding choice setting, subjects had to decide under time pressure. I find a strong and positive relationship between CRT-scores and cooperation, that is not driven by confusion. Time pressure has a strongly moderating effect on this relationship.

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Smart or selfish – When smart guys finish nice

Lohse

2016

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

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“…Consistent with this reasoning, more intelligent individuals are more likely to make the theoretically rational choice to defect in one‐shot Prisoner's Dilemma games (Kanazawa & Fontaine, ). This may be because more intelligent individuals are better able to comprehend the evolutionarily novel situations of complete anonymity and absolutely no possibility of knowing future interactions and make the rational decision to defect.…”

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Country roads, take me home… to my friends: How intelligence, population density, and friendship affect modern happiness

Kanazawa

2016

British J of Psychology

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We propose the savanna theory of happiness, which suggests that it is not only the current consequences of a given situation but also its ancestral consequences that affect individuals' life satisfaction and explains why such influences of ancestral consequences might interact with intelligence. We choose two varied factors that characterize basic differences between ancestral and modern life - population density and frequency of socialization with friends - as empirical test cases. As predicted by the theory, population density is negatively, and frequency of socialization with friends is positively, associated with life satisfaction. More importantly, the main associations of life satisfaction with population density and socialization with friends significantly interact with intelligence, and, in the latter case, the main association is reversed among the extremely intelligent. More intelligent individuals experience lower life satisfaction with more frequent socialization with friends. This study highlights the utility of incorporating evolutionary perspectives in the study of subjective well-being.

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“…For example, more intelligent individuals are more likely to make the theoretically rational choice to defect in one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma games (Kanazawa & Fontaine, 2013). This may be because more intelligent individuals are better able to comprehend the evolutionarily novel entities of complete anonymity and absolutely no possibility of knowing future interactions and make the rational decision to defect.…”

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