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| List of Cases | p. xv |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Women's Hotline Case | p. 2 |
| The Women's Hotline Case (Continued) | p. 3 |
| Conflict Defined | p. 4 |
| Arenas for Conflict | p. 5 |
| Productive and Destructive Conflict Interaction | p. 7 |
| Judgments About Conflict Outcomes | p. 9 |
| Plan of the Book | p. 11 |
| ... MORE | p. 11 |
| Communication and Conflict | p. 13 |
| A Model of Effective Conflict Management | p. 13 |
| Moving Through Differentiation and Integration | p. 14 |
| Taking the Middle Path: Moving Toward Integration | p. 18 |
| Recognizing Destructive Cycles | p. 19 |
| Tacking Against the Wind | p. 20 |
| Properties of Conflict Interaction | p. 22 |
| Property 1: Conflict Is Constituted and Sustained by Moves and Countermoves During Interaction | p. 23 |
| Property 2: Patterns of Behavior in Conflict Tend to Perpetuate Themselves | p. 25 |
| Property 3: Conflict Interaction Is Influenced by and in Turn Affects Relationships | p. 27 |
| Confrontation Episodes Theory | p. 28 |
| Property 4: Conflict Interaction Is Influenced by the Context in Which It Occurs | p. 32 |
| The Columnist's Brown Bag | p. 33 |
| Summary and Review | p. 34 |
| Conclusion | p. 36 |
| The Inner Experience of Conflict | p. 38 |
| The Parking Lot Scuffle | p. 39 |
| The Psychodynamic Perspective | p. 39 |
| Collusion and Intractable Conflict | p. 42 |
| Emotion and Conflict | p. 44 |
| Psychodynamic Theory and the Parking Lot Scuffle | p. 44 |
| Verbal Aggressiveness | p. 46 |
| Emotion in the Parking Lot Scuffle | p. 51 |
| Social Cognition and Conflict | p. 51 |
| Social Knowledge About Conflict and Conflict Interaction | p. 52 |
| Social Knowledge About Conflict and the Parking Lot Scuffle | p. 58 |
| Social Cognitive Processes and Conflict | p. 58 |
| Expectancy Violations and the Parking Lot Scuffle | p. 60 |
| The Role of Attributions in the Parking Lot Scuffle | p. 63 |
| The Interaction of Psychodynamics, Emotion, and Social Cognition in Conflict | p. 65 |
| Trained Incapacities and Conflict Interaction | p. 67 |
| Summary and Review | p. 69 |
| Conclusion | p. 71 |
| Conflict Interaction | p. 73 |
| Stages of Conflict | p. 74 |
| Rummel's Five-Stage Model | p. 75 |
| Pondy's Model | p. 76 |
| Stage Models of Negotiation | p. 76 |
| Insights of Stage Models of Conflict | p. 76 |
| Multiple Sequences in Conflict | p. 78 |
| Final Thoughts About Stage Models of Conflict | p. 79 |
| Charting a Conflict | p. 79 |
| Stage Models and the Parking Lot Scuffle | p. 79 |
| Interdependence | p. 80 |
| Interdependence and the Parking Lot Scuffle | p. 82 |
| Reciprocity and Compensation | p. 82 |
| Can Conflict Competence Be Assessed? | p. 84 |
| Reciprocity and Compensation in the Parking Lot Scuffle | p. 86 |
| The Tit-for-Tat Strategy | p. 87 |
| Framing Issues in Conflict Interaction | p. 87 |
| Issue Framing and the Parking Lot Scuffle | p. 90 |
| Social Identity and Intergroup Conflict | p. 91 |
| Intergroup Conflict Dynamics and the Parking Lot Scuffle | p. 97 |
| Counteracting the Negative Impacts of Social Identity and Intergroup Conflict | p. 98 |
| Summary and Review | p. 100 |
| Conclusion | p. 101 |
| Conflict Styles and Strategic Conflict Interaction | p. 104 |
| Origins of Conflict Styles | p. 105 |
| Conflict Styles in the Parking Lot Scuffle | p. 106 |
| What Is a Conflict Style? | p. 107 |
| An Expanded View of Conflict Styles | p. 109 |
| Competing | p. 111 |
| Avoiding | p. 112 |
| Accommodating | p. 114 |
| Compromising | p. 115 |
| Collaborating | p. 116 |
| Determining the Styles of Others | p. 118 |
| Pairings of Conflict Styles | p. 119 |
| Shifting Styles During Conflict Episodes | p. 120 |
| College Roommates | p. 121 |
| Selecting Conflict Styles | p. 123 |
| A Procedure for Selecting Conflict Styles | p. 124 |
| Cultural and Gender Influences on Conflict Styles | p. 128 |
| Cultural Influences | p. 128 |
| Gender Influences | p. 130 |
| Styles and Tactics in Practice | p. 130 |
| The Would-Be Borrower | p. 131 |
| Summary and Review | p. 133 |
| Conclusion | p. 135 |
| Power: The Architecture of Conflict | p. 136 |
| Power and the Emergence of Conflict | p. 136 |
| A Raid on the Student Activity Fees Fund | p. 137 |
| A Raid on the Student Activity Fees Fund (Continued) | p. 138 |
| A Relational View of Power | p. 140 |
| The Eccentric Professor | p. 142 |
| Social Categorization | p. 143 |
| The Mystique of Power | p. 144 |
| Interaction | p. 145 |
| Legitimacy | p. 146 |
| Implications of Endorsement for Power | p. 146 |
| Power and Conflict Interaction | p. 147 |
| The Creativity Development Committee | p. 148 |
| The Use of Power in Conflict Tactics | p. 152 |
| Threats and Promises | p. 152 |
| Relational Control | p. 154 |
| Issue Control | p. 155 |
| The Balance of Power in Conflict | p. 158 |
| The Dilemmas of Strength | p. 158 |
| The Copywriter's Committee | p. 159 |
| Unbalanced Intimacy | p. 160 |
| Job Resignation at a Social Service Agency | p. 161 |
| The Dangers of Weakness | p. 162 |
| Cultural Differences in Values | p. 165 |
| Working with Power | p. 165 |
| Diagnosing the Role of Power in Conflict | p. 165 |
| Fostering Shared Power in Conflicts | p. 167 |
| Summary and Review | p. 170 |
| Conclusion | p. 172 |
| Face-Saving | p. 174 |
| The Dimensions of Face | p. 175 |
| Face Loss as It Relates to Face-Saving | p. 176 |
| A Threat to Flexibility in Conflict Interaction | p. 176 |
| The Professor's Decision | p. 178 |
| The Outspoken Member | p. 178 |
| The Controversial Team Member | p. 179 |
| Conflict Interaction as a Face-Saving Arena | p. 183 |
| Face-Saving Frames in Conflict Interaction | p. 188 |
| Resisting Unjust Intimidation | p. 188 |
| Refusing to Give on a Position | p. 190 |
| Suppressing Conflict Issues | p. 191 |
| Face-Giving Strategies | p. 192 |
| Working With Face-Saving Issues | p. 196 |
| The Productivity and Performance Report | p. 199 |
| Summary and Review | p. 200 |
| Conclusion | p. 202 |
| The Context of Conflict Interaction | p. 203 |
| History | p. 204 |
| Coordinated Management of Meaning in the Parking Lot Scuffle | p. 207 |
| Working with History | p. 209 |
| Climate | p. 210 |
| Riverdale Halfway House | p. 213 |
| More Detail on Climate | p. 215 |
| Climate and Conflict Interaction | p. 217 |
| Identifying Climates | p. 219 |
| Working with Climate | p. 220 |
| Breakup at the Bakery | p. 221 |
| Creating Constructive Climates | p. 222 |
| The Expanding Printing Company | p. 225 |
| The Organizational Context | p. 227 |
| What Type of Dispute Resolution System Does an Organization Have? | p. 227 |
| Working with Organizational Dispute Resolution Systems | p. 229 |
| Summary and Review | p. 230 |
| Conclusion | p. 232 |
| Managing Conflict | p. 234 |
| Review of the Normative Model for Conflict Management | p. 234 |
| Navigating Differentiation | p. 235 |
| Framing Problems or Issues | p. 236 |
| Cultivating a Collaborative Attitude | p. 238 |
| Moving from Differentiation to Integration | p. 239 |
| A Procedure for Managing Conflicts | p. 241 |
| How Can We Manage Extreme Conflict? | p. 244 |
| Additional Useful Techniques | p. 245 |
| The Psychological Evaluation Unit | p. 249 |
| Summary and Review | p. 251 |
| Conclusion | p. 252 |
| Third-Party Intervention | p. 254 |
| Property 1: Conflict Interaction Is Constituted and Sustained by Moves and Countermoves During Interaction | p. 255 |
| Third-Party Mandate | p. 256 |
| Responsiveness to Emerging Interaction | p. 260 |
| Organizational Co-Heads | p. 262 |
| The Family Conflict | p. 263 |
| Property 2: Patterns of Behavior in Conflict Tend to Perpetuate Themselves | p. 266 |
| Third Parties and Conflict Cycles | p. 266 |
| Neighbor Noise Problems | p. 269 |
| Third Parties and the Overall Shape of Conflict Behavior | p. 270 |
| Third Parties, Differentiation, and Integration | p. 271 |
| Property 3: Conflict Interaction Is Influenced by and in Turn Affects Relationships | p. 276 |
| Property 4: Conflict Interaction Is Influenced by the Context in Which It Occurs | p. 278 |
| Third-Party Roles and Ideologies | p. 279 |
| Transformative Mediation: A Relational Approach to Conflict Intervention | p. 281 |
| Third-Party Roles and Climate | p. 282 |
| Summary and Review | p. 284 |
| Conclusion | p. 287 |
| References | p. 288 |
| Index | p. 305 |
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