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Ranking international cooperation and conflict events
Beer, FA | Ringer, JF | Sinclair, GP | Healy, AF | Bourne, LE Jr
International Interactions [INT. INTERACT.]. Vol. 17, no. 4, pp.
321-348. 1992.
A set of psychological laboratory experiments were conducted to
refine a scale that could be used to study cognition and
decision-making in international cooperation and conflict events.
The COPDAB scale, ranking international conflict and cooperation,
was expanded and reanalyzed. The original 15 point scale was
augmented to include four actors and three new categories for
nuclear conflict. The new 18 point scale was used as a template to
generate separate sets of action and message items. These items
were administered in alternative orders and ranked by political
science graduate students and psychology undergraduates. There
were four major sets of findings. 1) Action and message items
across all 18 ranks provided separate and similar scaling
outcomes. 2) Cooperative items in the bottom 7 ranks continued to
be difficult to rank properly. They were given cooperative values,
but did not increase monotonically across experimental ranks. 3)
Conflictual items in the top 10 ranks increased more regularly
across scale categories. The observed values were closer to
expected results, except for the borderline between conventional
and nuclear weapons.
 Descriptors: Article Subject Terms decision making | international cooperation | politics | psychology
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