Behavioral and emotional dynamics of two people struggling to reach consensus about a topic on which they disagree

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kurt, Levent ^a   Kugler, Katharina G ^b   Coleman, Peter T ^c   Liebovitch, Larry S ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; AFFIRMATIVE ACTION; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; EMOTION; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBABILITY; PUNISHMENT; RECALL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CONSENSUS; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897532920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084608     Document Type: Article

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