In a time of income inequality and ruthless politics, people with outsized power or an unrelenting willingness to browbeat others often seem to come out ahead.
New research from Dartmouth, however, shows that being uncooperative can help people on the weaker side of the power dynamic achieve a more equal outcome — and even inflict some loss on their abusive counterpart.
The findings provide a tool based in game theory — the field of mathematics focused on optimizing competitive strategies — that could be applied to help equalize the balance of power in labor negotiations or…
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