Research on dilemmas in the laboratory reveals that cooperation is facilitated:
a. if the game is changed into a zero-sum game
b. if one person cooperates 90 percent of the time or more
c. if the opponents can communicate with one another
d. if the players' combined outcomes never equal zero
e. if only one party has threat capability
Ans: c
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