For subjects of both rank types, the higher the expectation of defection, the higher the probability of defecting.
The rate of defection was based only on votes attended.
First, cognitive openings are recurrent events and can catalyze defections when the group's ideology cannot resolve new issues.
Fear of future defection and exploitation, then, inhibits agreements in the present.
But because human representations of agency and intention include representations of false belief and deception, human society is forever under threat of moral defection.
Consequently, at low producer frequencies, the producers have a higher fitness than the non-producing defectors (cheaters are defectors that gain an advantage from defection).
That is, the computer would behave as if its choice were reinforced by the player's cooperation and punished by the player's defection.
This suggests that concern about junior defections when the party is in trouble is not an altogether new phenomenon.
