Alison Wood Brooks

So it seems simple that you should stay quiet, except if you snitch and the other guy stays quiet, you walk free.

Everybody is tempted to betray. And so this is a non-cooperative coordination game because you're incentivized to not cooperate. Oh, interesting.

Everybody is tempted to betray. And so this is a non-cooperative coordination game because you're incentivized to not cooperate. Oh, interesting.

Everybody is tempted to betray. And so this is a non-cooperative coordination game because you're incentivized to not cooperate. Oh, interesting.

That's what makes it hard. The biggest reward is to walk free.

That's what makes it hard. The biggest reward is to walk free.

That's what makes it hard. The biggest reward is to walk free.

In theory, logically, but if you're the person, you start to get the sense of why these games are interesting to people because then you can change all kinds of stuff. Who are you imagining in the other room? What's your relationship with them? What do you know about the person? If you did this game 10 times in a row based on their prior behavior, what do you do in the last round?

In theory, logically, but if you're the person, you start to get the sense of why these games are interesting to people because then you can change all kinds of stuff. Who are you imagining in the other room? What's your relationship with them? What do you know about the person? If you did this game 10 times in a row based on their prior behavior, what do you do in the last round?

In theory, logically, but if you're the person, you start to get the sense of why these games are interesting to people because then you can change all kinds of stuff. Who are you imagining in the other room? What's your relationship with them? What do you know about the person? If you did this game 10 times in a row based on their prior behavior, what do you do in the last round?

Tell me.

Tell me.

Tell me.

These games have been studied so much that I'm sure there are lots of cross-cultural findings about how Germans play, how everyone plays. So economists and game theorists were kind of obsessed with these coordination games. Now fast forward to now. We have whole fields that have been studying social psychology, communication, all of this stuff.

These games have been studied so much that I'm sure there are lots of cross-cultural findings about how Germans play, how everyone plays. So economists and game theorists were kind of obsessed with these coordination games. Now fast forward to now. We have whole fields that have been studying social psychology, communication, all of this stuff.

These games have been studied so much that I'm sure there are lots of cross-cultural findings about how Germans play, how everyone plays. So economists and game theorists were kind of obsessed with these coordination games. Now fast forward to now. We have whole fields that have been studying social psychology, communication, all of this stuff.

And what I realized is even though we have these whole fields that are about interpersonal interaction, not a lot of people had gone to the trouble of actually recording real people talking to real people at very large scale. The reason they hadn't is because we needed new technology to do it.

And what I realized is even though we have these whole fields that are about interpersonal interaction, not a lot of people had gone to the trouble of actually recording real people talking to real people at very large scale. The reason they hadn't is because we needed new technology to do it.

And what I realized is even though we have these whole fields that are about interpersonal interaction, not a lot of people had gone to the trouble of actually recording real people talking to real people at very large scale. The reason they hadn't is because we needed new technology to do it.

We needed natural language processing and machine learning to help us analyze tons of transcripts at once. We just weren't ready to do it until very recently. But as we were sort of like, oh, we should do that. We should record tons of conversations and analyze them.