The Trucking Game (Deutsch & Krauss,1960,1962) puts participants in a conflict situation.Each participant wants to get his or her truck to the destination as quickly as possible.Morton Deutsch and Robert Krauss introduced a novel twist.They sometimes gave one participant a gate with which to threaten an opponent.At other times,they gave both participants such a gate,and still other times,neither participant had a gate with which to threaten his or her opponent.What happened?
A) When only one participant could wield a threat, both participants lost money.
B) When both participants wielded threats (used gates to block their opponents) , they negotiated and reached a cooperative arrangement.
C) When only one participant could wield threats, the game typically ended in a stalemate.
D) When only one participant wielded a threat (used the gate to block the opponent) , the person with the gate won more money.
E) When both participants could wield threats, both participants won more.
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