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Bargaining and Influence in Conflict Situations [PDF]
[Excerpt] This chapter examines bargaining as an influence process through which actors attempt to resolve a social conflict. Conflict occurs when two or more interdependent actors have incompatible preferences and perceive or anticipate resistance from ...
Ford, Rebecca, Lawler, Edward J
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Law for the Common Man: An Individual-Level Theory of Values, Expanded Rationality, and the Law [PDF]
This article makes an admittedly bold attempt at outlining an analytical framework for addressing this question. Instead of looking at the legal implications of bounded rationality -- an exercise highly worthy in its own right -- this article advances a ...
Licht, Amir N.
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Designing behaviourally informed policies for land stewardship: A new paradigm [PDF]
This paper argues the case for a new approach to the stewardship of land resources that uses behavioural science theory to support the design and application of policies that facilitate changes in behaviour by those who develop policy and the farmers who
Becker, John, Crofts, R, Hine, Don W
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Over one-quarter of all federal criminal prosecutions and a large number of state cases involve prosecutions for conspiracy. Yet, the major scholarly articles and the bulk of prominent jurists have roundly condemned the doctrine.
Katyal, Neal K.
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Psychological deterrents to nuclear theft :
A review of the unclassified literature dealing with psychological deterrents was conducted for the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA). The review indicates that while human psychological processes (sensory, perceptual, and cognitive) can be manipulated by various means, definitive empirical data are lacking which directly relate to deterring nuclear weapon ...
Clare Goodman, George W Lapinsky
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Psychological predictors of deterrence from travel due to terrorist action [PDF]
Research has shown that terrorism is associated with a decline in tourism to targeted countries (Enders & Sandler, 1991). The existing studies are based on a retrospective analysis of tourism statistics in relation to occurrences of terrorism. The present research moves beyond these earlier studies by identifying in realtime the duration and extent
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Schelling, von Neumann, and the Event that Didn’t Occur [PDF]
Thomas Schelling was recognized by the Nobel Prize committee as a pioneer in the application of game theory and rational choice analysis to problems of politics and international relations.
Field, Alexander J.
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Analysis of strategic and deterrence equilibrium by modeling with a Van der Waals gas [PDF]
In this paper we are going to propose a physical model that can represent a simple deterrence equilibrium situation, it is on based theory of unitary rational actors. This theory takes in account that a state is composed of a large number of people and a detailed study of the dynamics of any individual it is impossible.
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In order to make whistle-blowing as a deterrent to organizational wrong-doings, it is necessary to build an environment where proper whistle-blowing can be carried out easily. In this study, we investigated the influences of the individual characteristics and the organization characteristics both on the whistle-blowing action and attitudes to whistle ...
Jinmin Wang+3 more
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Metatheory and Friendly Competition in Theory Growth: The Case of Power Processes in Bargaining [PDF]
[Excerpt] This paper analyzes the theoretical development taking place in a program of research on power processes in bargaining (see Bacharach and Lawler 1976, 1980, 1981a, 1981b; Lawler and Bacharach 1976, 1979, 1987; Lawler, Ford, and Blegen 1988 ...
Ford, Rebecca, Lawler, Edward J
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