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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychologia. 2010 Oct 27;49(4):602–611. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.09.023

Table 3.

Dominant reciprocity strategies were defined as follows. When a person used only one strategy more than 30% of the time, they were defined as using that strategy. In cases where more than one strategy was used more than 30% of the time theses rules were used to classify their strategy use. The rules written in bold and italicized, supersede the other rules.

Reciprocity Strategy Strategy Classification Rules (% of Trials)
Tit-for-Tat > 50% Tit-for-Tat

Benevolent > 50% Benevolent
> 30% Benevolent & >30% Tit-for-Tat
> 30% Benevolent & >30% Ambivalent
> 30% Benevolent & >30% Tit-for-Tat & >30% Ambivalent

Ambivalent > 50% Ambivalent
> 30% Ambivalent & >30% Tit-for-Tat

Malevolent > 50% Malevolent
> 30% Malevolent & >30% Tit-for-Tat
> 30% Malevolent & >30% Ambivalent

Sporadic > 30% Benevolent & >30% Malevolent
> 30% Tit-for-Tat & >30% Benevolent & >30% Malevolent
> 30% Benevolent & >30% Malevolent & >30% Ambivalent
< 30% of any particular type