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. 1996 Nov 12;93(23):13421–13428. doi: 10.1073/pnas.93.23.13421

Table 3.

Frequency of outcomes and conditional expected posterior probabilities: Repeated-play experiments

Treatment Node x2, right (noncooperation)
Node x6, right (SP)
Node x3, down game 1 or left game 2 (defection)
Node x5, down game 1 (punish)
n r E"(p|r,n) n r E"(p|r,n) n r E"(p|r,n) n r E"(p|r,n)
Same 1 433 80 0.186 80 68 0.841 353 41 0.118 41 27 0.651
Same 2* 423 162 0.384 162 114 0.701 261 41 0.160 NA NA NA
Random 1 471 154 0.328 154 149 0.962 317 102 0.223 102 69 0.673
Random 2* 453 293 0.646 293 278 0.946 160 70 0.438 NA NA NA
Repeat single 1 352 148 0.421 148 138 0.927 204 71 0.375 71 36 0.507

NA, not applicable. 

*

Note that in game 2, the move order of the outcomes [60, 30] and [50, 50] are reversed relative to game 1.