communicate a self-chosen personal characteristic towards the rival on conflict behavior. In a two-player individual contest with …-characteristics significantly affect the average level of conflict. Both of those, however, significantly affect players' strategies, in the sense … of the extent they involve conflict over time. Overall, the results indicate that inter-personal communication may help …

We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … asymmetry and complementarity in members' efforts, and analyze how each group's internal conflict influences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …

We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … asymmetry and complementarity in members’ efforts, and analyze how each group’s internal conflict in-fluences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …