International Journal of Conflict Management: Volume 4 Issue 3

COMPLAINANT‐RESPONDENT DIFFERENCES IN PROCEDURAL CHOICE

Robert S. Peirce, Dean G. Pruitt

This research concerned preference and choice among six procedures commonly used to resolve disputes. Two experiments revealed that, compared to complainants, respondents liked…

RISK PROPENSITY AND CONFLICT BEHAVIOR IN DYADIC NEGOTIATION: SOME EVIDENCE FROM THE LABORATORY

Dipankar Ghosh

Prior research suggests that there is enough residual uncertainty in conflict situations so that a person's attitude towards risk may influence his or her conflict behavior. This…

IMAGINED IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES IN CONFLICT ESCALATION AND RESOLUTION

Dacher Keltner, Robert J. Robinson

There is a tendency for opposing partisans to ideological disputes to imagine that their opponents are extremist, biased, and in diametric opposition to themselves. The current…

MANAGING EMPLOYER‐EMPLOYEE CONFLICT: A CASE FOR ARBITRATION AND THE MODEL EMPLOYMENT TERMINATION ACT

Lorne Seidman, Robert J. Aalberts

The doctrine of employment‐at‐will has been the rule of law for over 100 years in the United States. Under it an employee can be terminated for a good reason, a bad reason, or for…