Orange Is the New Black: The Prisoner’s Dilemma Compounded?

The Netflix women’s prison series Orange Is the New Black opened its second season by posing a problem in which two prisoners must each admit a dangerous truth or lie about it. They may face a social dilemma in which each may suffer in different ways if they do not both do the same thing, but is their predicament really social psychology’s so-called Prisoner’s Dilemma?

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