The prisoner's dilemma exercise assumes
A)prisoners are rational.
B)prisoners are altruistic to each other if they know each other well.
C)prisoners believe other prisoners are different then they themselves are.
D)prisoners do not know what the penalties are when they are interrogated.

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The prisoner's dilemma assumes that prisoners (or players in the game) are rational, meaning they will act in their own self-interest to minimize their own penalties or maximize their own benefits, even when cooperation might yield a better collective outcome.

The Prisoner's Dilemma Exercise Assumes