| Account Episodes: The Management or Escalation of Conflict Contributor(s): Schonbach, Peter (Author), Sch Nbach, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521155029 ISBN-13: 9780521155021 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - Psychology | Personality - Psychology | Social Psychology |
| Dewey: 303.372 |
| Series: European Monographs in Social Psychology |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6" W x 9" (0.77 lbs) 236 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Responsibility and accountability are the issues at the heart of this book. An account episode, according to Professor Sch nbach's conception, is a four-phase interaction between an actor and an opponent. Account episodes occur in many different social settings; they are societal means for the resolution or diminution of conflicts engendered by failure events. Frequently, however, such episodes do not accomplish this goal but promote an escalation of the original conflict. The basic questions addressed in this book are under what circumstances an account episode is likely to be successful, and under which other conditions it is likely to founder. Ten studies of interchanges between actor and opponent, based on Sch nbach's escalation theory, reveal fascinating interactions between actor and opponent, between severity of reproach, defensiveness of accounts, needs for control of the participants and their gender in determining the course of account episodes. |