Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to study cooperative behavior of freshmen and senior business administration undergraduates. In the experiment, the non-matrix type of the Prisoners Dilemma game reward structure with 3 kinds of response condition : cooperative, competitive and TIT-FOR-TAT, was used. The results show that there are significant differences (P<.001) between cooperative behaviors of freshmen and senior students in every kind of response condition. However, further analysis reveals that among the freshmen, cooperative behavior in both the cooperative and TIT-FOR-TAT response condition are significantly high (P<.05) than in the competitive condition. The cooperative behavior in the cooperative condition do not differ significantly from that in the TIT-FOR-TAT condition. For the senior students, three are no differences in cooperative behavior among the three kinds of response condition.