The Prisoner's Dilemma

A game show variation of the prisoner's dilemma. The most common thing that people choose to do at that decision point is steal the money. It's entirely fuelled by what future world would we want to prevent for fear of social reprisal. If you're thinking share, because you'rean altruistic person, you have no idea if the other person's planning on just stealing it from you when you say share,. and then you get nothing.