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Dilemma
About: Dilemma is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 16202 publications have been published within this topic receiving 250251 citations. The topic is also known as: Dilemna.
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TL;DR: This article investigated the effect of personality on competitive versus cooperative behavior in five Prisoner's Dilemma games and found that personality traits such as locus of control, self-monitoring, type-A behavior and sensation seeking were correlated with competitive and cooperative behavior.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the potential of stakeholder theory to solve management's dilemma of how to satisfy the competing claims of shareholders and the other stakeholders and propose a stakeholder-based approach to strategic management.
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12 Apr 1996
TL;DR: The Domesday Argument and the Prisoner's Dilemma this article were used in this article to argue against nuclear war and nuclear revenge in the early 1970s, and they were used to justify war, pollution, and disease.
Abstract: Introduction, 1. War, Pollution, Disease, 2. Other Dangers, 3. Judging the Risks, 4. Why Prolong Human History? 5. The Domesday Argument, 6. Testing the Argument, 7. Prisoner's Dilemma and Nuclear Revenge, Bibliography, Index of Names, Index of Concepts.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors showed that participants in a one-trial prisoner's dilemma know before making their decision that the other person has already defected, and this motivational conflict should lead at least some empathically aroused individuals not to defect.
Abstract: What if participants in a one-trial prisoner's dilemma know before making their decision that the other person has already defected? From the perspective of classic game theory, a dilemma no longer exists. It is clearly in their best interest to defect too. The empathy-altruism hypothesis predicts, however, that if they feel empathy for the other, then a dilemma remains: self-interest counsels defection; empathy-induced altruism counsels not. This motivational conflict should lead at least some empathically aroused individuals not to defect. To test this prediction, we placed 60 undergraduate women in a one-trial prisoner's dilemma in which they knew the other had already defected. Among those not induced to feel empathy, very few (0.05) did not defect in return. Among those induced to feel empathy for the other, almost half (0.45) did not defect. These results underscore the power of empathy-induced altruism to affect responses in a prisoner's dilemma. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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