The Prisoner's Dilemma. The prisoner's dilemma is a concept used to help explain situations in which individual actors may pursue their own self-interest even in situations where they would all be better off if they cooperated and acted for the good of the group.J
Prisoner’s dilemma is where two people each have two choices, and their outcome depends on the decision made by the other person, often in the sense of two criminals separately deciding whether to confess to a crime they have committed.
