Research Article
Effects of Strategically Induced Inferiority Risk and Superiority Deprivation on Relative Gain Achievement in Mixed Motive Games
Author:
Pierre-Ghislain Slosse
Blijdschapstraat 107 1070 Brussel, BE
Abstract
A first experiment reported in this paper had 30 subjects play 100 trials of a Maximizing Difference Game against a simulated partner who followed one of two modified delayed matching strategies. Half of the subjects met a strategy designed to make them inferior, the other half a strategy making them superior in terms of relative gain maximization The inferior group showed significantly more relative gain achievement than the superior group In a second experiment 98 subjects played 100 trials of a Mutual Fate Control Game against one of seven pre-programmed strategies, entailing different levels of inferiority risk and superiority deprivation. The results fully supported the predictions that the amount of inferiority risk, as a primary factor, and of superiority deprivation, as a secondary factor, should be directly related to the amount of relative gain achievement and inversely related to the amount of joint gain achievement.
How to Cite:
Slosse, P.-G., 1982. Effects of Strategically Induced Inferiority Risk and Superiority Deprivation on Relative Gain Achievement in Mixed Motive Games. Psychologica Belgica, 22(1), pp.39–55. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/pb.687
Published on
01 Jan 1982.
Peer Reviewed
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