Undiscounted costs and socially discounted benefits modulate cooperation in one‐shot and iterated prisoner's dilemma games

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Experiment finds that social discounting influences cooperation levels in prisoner's dilemma games, suggesting key insights.

Increasing benefits boosts cooperation while increasing costs reduces it across cooperation tasks.
In a sample of 126 participants, the percentage of cooperators changed with varying costs and benefits during one-shot games.
Cost-benefit balance, influenced by social discounting, dictates cooperation levels in one-shot and iterated games.
The impact of costs on cooperation was notably greater than that of benefits, particularly as values reached extremes.

Toledo et al. (2025) studied this question.

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