Analyze Individual and Group Behaviour with the What Would You Do Game Containing...

Analyze Individual and Group Behaviour with the What Would You Do Game Containing Eight Decisionmaking Scenarios

DUBLIN, Ireland--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c83369) has announced the
addition of "What Would You Do?: A Game of Ethical and Moral Dilemma,
Leader's Guide" to their offering

The What Would You Do? game contains eight decision-making
scenarios. For each scenario, players have to decide whether to take a
collaborative or competitive road, scoring points for each of several
rounds. Points are based on how an individual's choice compares with
those of the other players in the group. At the end of the game,
players compare their decisions with the other players. The first
scenario mirrors the original Prisoner's Dilemma - two prisoners are
captured and brought in for questioning. Each has to decide whether to
collaborate (which results in a lighter sentence) or save their own
skin (which results in no punishment for one prisoner, and a heavy
sentence for the other). Each of the next seven scenarios introduces
additional problems that turn up the heat and force the participants
to make increasingly difficult ethical decisions.

What Would You Do? is a team game based on the classic group
activity, A Prisoner's Dilemma, one of the most widely known game
designs and also one of the earliest attempts to use games to analyze
individual and group behaviour.

The game places two teams (or individuals) in a variety of ethical
or moral dilemmas. In each case, the opposing players are deemed
responsible for some discretion, and are called to account. Played in
rounds, each player can choose between two moves, either cooperation
(to confess) or defection (to remain silent). The (separated) players
are aware that they minimize the repercussions when they cooperate,
but if only one of them cooperates the other player gets off the hook.

What Would You Do? is an excellent way of studying the issues of
competition versus cooperation between individuals and among groups
because it is one for which the optimal outcome, the one that would be
best for both parties, is not always the outcome players will reach.
The game allows for the possibility that cooperation can evolve in the
long run even though in the short run it seems always better to defect
(compete).

The leader's guide provides background to A Prisoner's Dilemma and
the experimental research that led to the game; complete instructions
for running the game; and an expanded debrief section that helps the
facilitator guide the team to explore and identify the game's key
points. The participant's guide contains a summary of ten different
scenarios and scoring sheets for each of the (up to ten) rounds of
game play.

About the Author

Lorraine L. Ukens is the owner of Team-ing with Success, which
specializes in team building and experiential learning. Her wide range
of business experience is applied in designing, facilitating, and
evaluating programs in a variety of human resource development areas.
Ukens is the author of more than ten books, including the best-selling
simulation, Lost in the Amazon and her most recent collection of
activities, The New Encyclopaedia of Group Activities, both from
Pfeiffer. She received her M.S. degree from Towson University, where
she taught as an adjunct faculty member from 1997 until 2005.

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Contents:

Introduction
Background on the Prisoner's Dilemma
Overview of What Would You Do? Game
Facilitator Guidelines
Processing Notes
Debriefing
Learning Extensions
Handout 1: Collaboration
Handout 2: Ethics
Response Cards Sheet
Bibliography
About the Author
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