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Bereby-Meyer, Yoella, and Alvin E. Roth. "Learning in Noisy Games: Partial Reinforcement and the Sustainability of Cooperation." American Economic Review 96, no. 4 (September 2006): 1029–1042.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Between late 1931 and early 1935, Pavlov used a partial-reinforcement procedure pairing the conditioned stimulus with food reinforcement on ...

Bereby-Meyer, Yoella, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Speed of Learning in Noisy Games: Partial Reinforcement and the Sustainability of Cooperation." American Economic Review 96, no. 4 (September 2006): ...