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Intergroup Conflict: Individual, Group, and Collective Interests

Department of Psychology and Center for the Study of Rationality The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Intergroup conflicts generally involve conflicts of interests within the competing groups as well. This article outlines a taxonomy of games, called team games, which incorporates the intragroup and intergroup levels of conflict. Its aims are to provide a coherent framework for analyzing the prototypical problems of cooperation and competition that arise within and between groups, and to review an extensive research program that has used this framework to study individual and group behavior in the laboratory. Depending on the game's payoff structure, contradictions or conflicts are created among the rational choices at the individual, group, and collective levels—a generalization of the contradiction between individual and collective rationality occurring in the traditional mixed-motive games. These contradictions are studied so as to identify the theoretical and behavioral conditions that determine which level of rationality prevails.

Personality and Social Psychology Review, Vol. 7, No. 2, 129-145 (2003)
DOI: 10.1207/S15327957PSPR0702_129-145


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