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CONFLICT

CONFLICT. Chapter 12. What is Conflict. Definition: Disagreement, discord and friction that occur when the actions or beliefs of one or more members of the group are unacceptable to and are resisted by one or more of the other group members Types

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CONFLICT

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  1. CONFLICT Chapter 12

  2. What is Conflict • Definition: Disagreement, discord and friction that occur when the actions or beliefs of one or more members of the group are unacceptable to and are resisted by one or more of the other group members • Types • Intergroup conflict involves two or more groups • Intragroup conflict occurs within a group

  3. Assumptions & Opinions of Conflict • Some people are always itching for a fight. • People who are aggressive are mentally unstable. • The human species is, by nature, aggressive. • Women are the gentler gender. • The best way to deal with conflict is to talk things over.

  4. What is Conflict

  5. Roots of Conflict • Conflict questions: • Who has won? (competition) • Who gets what? (resource distribution) • Who is in charge? (power struggles) • Who decides? (decisional conflict) • Who do I like? (personal conflict)

  6. Conflict and Competition • Deutsch: Cooperation versus competition • Mixed-motive conflict and the prisoner’s dilemma game (PDG) • The norm of reciprocity • Social values orientation: cooperators, competitors, and individualists • Sex differences

  7. Don Confesses Doesn’t Confess 0 years 1 years Doesn’t confesses 10 years 1 years Claire 10 years 5 year Confesses 5 year 0 years • Prisoner’s Dilemma Game

  8. Don Choice B Choice A + $50 + $25 Choice A - $25 + $25 Claire - $25 - $10 Choice B -$10 + $50 • Prisoner’s Dilemma Game

  9. Sharing • Sharing: Social dilemmas • Groups as social dilemmas: Self-interest (self-serving) vs. group interest (group-serving) • Types • Social traps (commons dilemmas): exploiting shared resources • Public goods dilemmas: contributions to public goods (free-riding) • Fairness dilemmas: distributive vs. procedural justice, distribution norms • Responsibility dilemmas: egocentrism vs. sociocentrism

  10. Sources of Conflict • Controlling: Power struggles • Deciding: Substantive vs. procedural conflicts • Liking and disliking: Personal conflicts • Attraction decreases conflict but disaffection (repulsion) increases conflict • Conflict and diversity in groups • Balance theory: members respond negatively when they disagree with those they like

  11. Why Does Conflict Escalate • Uncertainty → Commitment • Perception → Misperception • Fundamental attribution error • Misperceptions of motives • Weak Tactics → Stronger Tactics • Trucking game experiment (Deutsch & Krauss, 1960) • Communication can increase conflict if used to threaten

  12. Why Does Conflict Escalate? (cont) • Reciprocity → Upward Conflict Spiral • Norm of reciprocity • Rough (overmatching) and light reciprocity (undermatching) • Few → Many (coalition formation) • Irritation → Anger (contagion)

  13. Conflict Management • Commitment → Negotiation • Finding solutions by negotiating • Types: soft, hard, and principled negotiators • Misperception → Understanding

  14. Conflict Management • Strong Tactics → Cooperative Tactics • Types of tactics: Avoiding, yielding, fighting, & cooperating • Dimensions: negative-positive and active-passive • Upward → Downward Conflict Spirals • Axelrod’s Tit for Tat strategy (TFT) • Characteristics: provocable, reciprocal, forgiving

  15. Conflict Management • Many → Few • Mediators: third party interventions • Types: inquisitorial, arbitration, moot • Anger → Composure

  16. Does Resolved Conflict Lead to Improved Group Functioning? • Conflict is a natural consequence of joining a group • Cooperation promotes group unity, harmony, conflict undermines the group • Resolving non-personal conflicts may promote group functioning, but unclear

  17. Conclusion… • Uncertainty → Commitment → Negotiation • Perception → Misperception → Understanding • Weak Tactics → Stronger Tactics → Cooperative Tactics • Reciprocity → Upward Conflict Spiral → Downward spiral • Few → Many (coalition formation) → Few • Irritation → Anger (contagion) → Composure

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