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How understanding the prisoner's dilemma can help bridge liberal and conservative differences

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imageHow do people make social choices?Greg Lobinski, CC BY

In my social psychology class, I pose an extra credit question where students choose between having two points or six points added onto their final term paper grade, with the stipulation that if more than 10% of the class chooses six points, no one gets any points.

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