Imagine that you have been arrested for a crime that you committed with another person. The District Attorney places each of you in separate rooms and tells you that they are certain of your mutual guilt and have sufficient evidence to obtain 1-year convictions for each of you. But...you are offered clemency in return for confessing and implicating your partner. What do you do?

If:

• You both confess and implicate the other (both cheat): You both receive a 3-year prison sentence
• You both remain silent and protect each other (both cooperate): You both receive a 1-year prison sentence
• You confess and implicate your partner (you cheat), but they remain silent (they cooperate):You walk with immunity, while your partner receives a 5-year prison sentence ("Sucker's payoff")
• You stay silent (you cooperate), while your partner implicates you (they cheat): You receive a 5-year prison sentence, while your partner walks with immunity

Under what situations would your reaction differ? In what situation might you risk a prison sentence to protect your partner? In what situation might you be most likely to cheat and "betray" your partner?