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Descriptor English: Prisoner Dilemma
Descriptor Spanish: Dilema del Prisionero
Descriptor dilema del prisionero
Scope note: Un escenario en el análisis de decisión en el que dos individuos motivados exclusivamente por el instinto de autoconservación, a expensas de la otra, terminan en un estado peor que si hubieran cooperado entre sí en el proceso de toma de decisiones.
Descriptor Portuguese: Dilema do Prisioneiro
Descriptor French: Dilemme du prisonnier
Entry term(s): Dilemma, Prisoner
Dilemma, Prisoner's
Dilemma, Prisoners
Prisoner's Dilemma
Prisoners Dilemma
Tree number(s): E05.385.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000068956
Scope note: A scenario in decision analysis in which two individuals motivated entirely by self-preservation at the expense of the other, end up in a worse state than if they had cooperated with each other in the decision-making process.
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Public MeSH Note: 2016; see GAME THEORY 1985-2015
History Note: 2016; use GAME THEORY 1985-2015
DeCS ID: 56060
Unique ID: D000068956
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Date Established: 2016/01/01
Date of Entry: 2015/07/09
Revision Date: 2015/07/08
Prisoner Dilemma - Preferred
Concept UI M0008970
Scope note A scenario in decision analysis in which two individuals motivated entirely by self-preservation at the expense of the other, end up in a worse state than if they had cooperated with each other in the decision-making process.
Preferred term Prisoner Dilemma
Entry term(s) Dilemma, Prisoner
Dilemma, Prisoner's
Dilemma, Prisoners
Prisoner's Dilemma
Prisoners Dilemma



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