This study suggests a particular conceptualization of power for purposes of explaining the onset of international warfare. Power is here understood as a capability to effect a reduction of environmental uncertainty, while the exercise of power for the benefit of an actor is the actual reduction...

The effects of the perceived personality of the other player, player sex, and severity of conflict were examined in a mixed-motive game. It was found that players who believed that the other player was dominant expected fewer cooperative choices than players who believed that the other player...

From the philosophical and social science literature on pacifism, four components were derived as characterizing the pacifist: physical nonviolence, psychological non-violence, active value orientation, and internal locus of control. Scales to measure attitudes toward these components were...

This paper is an attempt to relate the player's behavior in a PD game to a loosely defined psychological attitude of altruism. The game matrix is transformed into a zero-sum game matrix that for each player reflects the strategic elements of the original game as modified by the degree of...