Tit-for-Tat Strategy

 

 

Tit-for-Tat strategy starts with cooperation but then repeats the last move of the partner. Essentially, it means three important norms:

 

 

1. Always start nice.

2. Retaliate immediately if the partner is not nice.

3. Forgive immediately if the partner gets back to nice.

 

 

Religious interpretation

Why Christianity became much more spread than Judaism,

if the Judaism follows Tit-for-Tat strategy, but the Christianity follows

Sucker one?

 

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Optimal Degree of Virtue

Useful Deviations?

 

 

Can we say that under a certain conditions a serious deviation from a norm (“golden mean”) might bring the person to success?

 

 

Read the next two slides about doctor Hare’s research and try to answer this question…

 

 

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R. Hare and Psychopathy Research

 

Robert Hare is the criminal psychologist, an expert of the FBI and

the British justice system. Developed the P-Scan, a test widely used

by police departments to screen new recruits for psychopathy. The

test is being used for screening firefighters, teachers, and operators

of nuclear power plants.

 

Psychopaths are the 1% of the general population that isn't burdened by conscience. Psychopaths have a profound lack of empathy. They use other people callously and remorselessly for their own ends. They seduce victims with a hypnotic charm that masks their true nature as pathological liars, master con artists, and heartless manipulators.

 

 

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Successful Managers are Psychopaths?

 

 

Once, R. Hare examined the executives of large corporations and found that almost all of them were more or less psychopaths. He put them though the checklist and they scored as "moderately psychopathic”.

 

 

Later, together with New York industrial psychologist Paul Babiak, Hare developed the B-Scan,a personality test that companies can use to spot job candidates who may have an MBA but lack a conscience.

 

 

" I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange. There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one's position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something. “ (R. Hare)

 

 

So, is deviation a good thing in business?

 

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3.8

How Good People Turn Evil

 

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How Good People Turn Evil