Table 2. Evidence for heterogeneity in the behavior of the population.
type of player | experiment 1 | control | experiment 2 |
pure cooperators | 1 | 1 | 6 |
mostly cooperators | 2 | 2 | 3 |
conditional cooperators | 125 | 92 | 91 |
mostly defectors | 26 | 36 | 36 |
pure defectors | 15 | 38 | 33 |
Frequency of the different types of players in the three parts of the experiment. Mostly defectors are people who defected more than 2/3 of the times in any context, mostly cooperators are those who cooperated more than 2/3 of the times in any context, and conditional cooperators follow the strategy described in the main text.