Prisoner's Dilemma, Selfishness, Sociality

A crucial factor in the Prisoner's Dilemma is the severing of communication between the two prisoners. So, the scenario involves two losses by each--freedom and camaraderie, and yet the standard analysis fails to take into consideration that the recovery of the latter, as much as that of the former, is an interest of each. If it did, then the dilemma would disappear, i. e. neither would rat out the other, and so, too, would the apparent paradox--that Selfishness can be self-defeating. In that case, what is instructive in the example is that the standard Capitalistic psychological analysis of competitive or hostile encounters, similarly, does not take into account the possibility that in them, sociality is as much a motive as is profit-seeking. If it did, then negotiation would not be a compromise, and exploitation would not be an option. So, what the Prisoner's Dilemma potentially exposes is the general neglect of sociality for its own sake as included in Selfishness.