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Identify the type of conflict in each of the examples below.

A. ______________________________________________

Within several days the camp degenerated into open war­fare. The conflict began with each side calling the other derogatory names during the competitive activities, and soon escalated to "garbage wars" in the dining hall, flag burnings, cabin ransackings, and even fistfights that had to be broken up by the camp staff. Asked to describe the other group, the boys invariably said "they" were "sneaky," "smart alecks," "stinkers," while referring to their own group as "brave," "tough," "friendly."

B. _________________________________________________

Students com­pete for good grades, teacher approval, and various honors and privileges. Is the following scene familiar (Aronson, 1980)? The teacher asks a ques­tion. Several students' hands shoot up; other students sit, eyes downcast, trying to look invisible. When the teacher calls on one of the eager faces, the others hope for a wrong answer, giving them a chance to display their knowledge. Those who fail to answer correctly, and those with the downcast looks who already feel like losers in this academic sport, often resent those who succeed. The situation abounds with both competition and painfully obvious status inequalities; it could hardly be better designed to create divisions among the students.

 

C. ___________________________________________________

If you and I have a relationship (employer-employee, teacher-student, husband-wife, colleague-colleague), it is equitable if

My outcomes = Your outcomes
My inputs Your inputs.

But if you contribute more and benefit less than I do, you likely will feel exploited and irritated; I may feel exploitative and guilty. Chances are, though, you more than I will be sensitive to the inequity and eager to remedy it.

D. ________________________________________________

In the Shantung Compound, a World War II internment camp the Japanese military herded foreigners re­siding in China. According to one of those interned, theologian Langdon Gilkey (1966), the need to distribute the barely adequate food and floor space provoked frequent conflicts involving people of various types — doc­tors, missionaries, lawyers, professors, business people, junkies, prostitutes.

E. _________________________________________________

Between the United States and the Soviet Union. A disinterested observer from another planet would likely note that the mil­itary policy of "Mutually Assured Destruction" is, as its acronym implies, MAD. As Dwight D. Elsenhower lamented, “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. . . . This is not a way of life, at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron”.



F. __________________________________________________

At first, people are eager to make some easy money, then to minimize their losses, and finally to save face and avoid defeat (Brockner et al., 1982; Teger, 1980). These shifting motives are strikingly similar to President Johnson's apparently shifting motives during the buildup of the Vietnam war. At first, his speeches included many positive references to America's concern for democracy, freedom, and justice. As the conflict escalated, his expressed concern became increasingly to protect America's honor and to avoid the national humiliation of losing a war.

(Based on DAVID G. MYERS “Social psychology”)

 


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