Games scientists play
Leopold AC. 1973. Games scientists play. BioScience. 23(10):590-594
A highly instrutive means of analysis of social behavior patterns is the transactional analysis (Berne 1964, Harris 1969, james and Jongeward 1971), in which indicdual utterance or comminications are taken to be the basic social transactions. These transactional units relate directly to underlying psycholocial attitutes of the indivual towards himself and towards others (I'm OK, Your're OK; I'm OK, You're not OK; etc.) When repeating sequences of these social transactions can be fit into sets or regular arrays with predicatable and nonconsturctive outcomes, they can be called 'games.' I propose to examine the social interactions of scientists using the format of tranactional analysis in the hope of encouraging a more candid look at ourselves as we really are-social creatures motivated by social forces which can sometimes override the basic ethic of scientific objectivity.
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- Journal Article
- Authors
- Leopold, A.
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- SODN
- Keywords
- Sociology