Radiolab

In the prisoners' dilemma game its basically comes out to be the logic game of human self-interest. When listen you come to see self-interest usually results in sub-optimal kind of outcome for the players in a prisoners' dilemma game. But also The prisoners' dilemma provides insights into the difficulty of maintaining cooperation when you hardly know people and that was a real life dilemma that the US and Russia was facing. In all reality a normal person is only interested in getting the maximum benefit but we have this unique understanding that if you be nice first the other side will usually reciprocate.We see this in the British - German breakfast halt where when the British stopped to eat there breakfast everyday the Germans would do the same and no gunfire would take place. Another interesting strategy that was the tic for tat which means that a person is more successful if he cooperates with another person.