The development of interpersonal relationships : an experimental approach
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Authors
Lichtig, Leo Kenneth
Issue Date
1976-08
Type
Electronic thesis
Thesis
Thesis
Language
ENG
Keywords
Communication
Alternative Title
Abstract
The research design established interpersonal interactions with experimental control using an expanded (5 X 5) Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) game. The game lasted for twenty rounds and employed sequential play. Seventy-eight college students played the game without knowing whom they were playing. All subjects in each research session actually played the experimenter who responded using predetermined responses, randomly generated as a normal distribution around subjects' choices. Uncertainty reduction was varied by changing the variance and range of the response distributions. The reward/cost variable (ric score) was varied by changing the cell values of the PD game payoff matricies. The subjects were randomly assigned to a game board and a response set.
Description
August 1976
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Publisher
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY