Games People Play Research Articles

Sex Games People Play: Intimacy Blocks, Games, and Scripts

This paper draws from the presentation “Sex Games People Play” before an audience of 80 at the World TA 2005 Summer Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. Included in this paper are new, unpublished TA theories on sex and intimacy including: the Sexual Winner's and Loser's Loops, the new field of Intimacy Analysis, the Intimacy Winner's and Loser's Loops, and five new versions of the Drama Triangle at the psychological and script levels.

Information Of The World, Unite!

This article discusses concerns about the security of electronic data collected in electronic transactions such as cellular telephone calls and credit card purchases. The combination of this information, referred to as data fusion, entails the matching of disparate sources of data in order to find patterns that indicate security issues. The problem of poor data quality in data fusion systems is described. INSETS: FUSION AND CONFUSION;Games People Play;How It Works;IDENTITY THEFT

Games People Play: Human Behavior and Invasive Weed Management

Games people play: human behavior and invasive weed management. DOI:10.2458/azu_rangelands_v27i6_mccoy

Games People Play: Human Behavior and Invasive Weed Management

Games People Play: Human Behavior and Invasive Weed Management

Games People Play

Games People Play

The Games People Play (and Why They Play Them): The “Meaning” of Lottery Participation

The Games People Play (and Why They Play Them): The “Meaning” of Lottery Participation

Games People Play with Abortion Data

Games People Play with Abortion Data

Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America

Preface to the 1991 Edition PART I: The Setting A New Role for the States Magnitudes The Fall and Rise of Lotteries PART II: The Games and the Players The Games People Play Why (and How) They Play The Demand for Lottery Products Winners and Losers PART III: The Government's Business State Politics and the Lottery Bandwagon The Suppliers The Sales Pitch PART IV: Lotteries as Public Policy A Painless Tax? Choices Appendix: Supplementary Tables Notes References Index

Games People (and Therapists) Play

Games People (and Therapists) Play

Selling hope: state lotteries in America

Preface to the 1991 Edition PART I: The Setting A New Role for the States Magnitudes The Fall and Rise of Lotteries PART II: The Games and the Players The Games People Play Why (and How) They Play The Demand for Lottery Products Winners and Losers PART III: The Government's Business State Politics and the Lottery Bandwagon The Suppliers The Sales Pitch PART IV: Lotteries as Public Policy A Painless Tax? Choices Appendix: Supplementary Tables Notes References Index

Games People Play with Cost Control in Australia

A study of a selected group of building and engineering construction contractors in the Australian construction industry was performed in order to determine the actual site cost control procedures and techniques being practiced. The study was conducted through a detailed questionnaire completed by the researcher during the course of interview sessions with the site managers of the 18 construction projects in the sample. The main trends disclosed from the questionnaire allowed a model of actual site cost control procedures to be flowcharted. This system was then subjected to a comparative analysis with an idealized site cost control system developed in a previous study. Cost control functions that are discussed in this paper include, among others, the method of work breakdown for site use in cost control, performance data feedback techniques and uses, yardsticks for cost control, and management action at the site. The study concludes with a set of general recommendations aimed to bring current site cost co...

Games in Black Male/Female Relationships

As we analyze Black male/female relationships, we find that there are numerous negative interpersonal relationship played that are destructive to sustaining a positive and healthy relationship. Most often, these games people play are responsible for the disintegration and disunity existing in Black male/ female relationships. Eric Berne, in his book Games People Play (1964) defines as a recurring set of transactions, often repetitions, superficially plausible, with a concealed motivation (conscious or unconscious) toward a hidden payoff. In a more colloquial term, he defines as a series of moves with a snare or gimmick. It is pertinent to emphasize that the played may be conscious or unconscious. That is, individuals may not be consciously aware of the they may be playing, and may be resistant to having those brought to consciousness by the nonplayer. Unconscious are probably the most destructive, in that the player is not aware of the unmet need being aroused, and those unconscious drives are brought into the relationship from early childhood relationships with parents and others.

Connections, Analogies, and Games People Play

Connections, Analogies, and Games People Play

Publications Received

Publications Received

Games People Play with Work Sampling

Guidelines and principles are presented for planning and implementing a work sampling program. Principles to be followed include careful planning to fulfill objectives, the need to be responsive to changing needs and conditions, the requirement for strong program leadership, and the need to implement changes. It is suggested that work sampling should be used as a means of communicating information much in the same way as cost account data are used. Planning and implementation as a joint venture between owner, construction manager, contractor, and labor is suggested. The role of the project director in establishing and maintaining acceptable levels of performance by the observers is also presented. Sources of errors in the data are discussed along with the problems of superficial data analysis. Several difficulties with continuous sampling programs are also noted.

Games People Play

I enjoy playing games! I particularly enjoy studying the history of ancient board games and discovering their strategies. In their purest forms, games can be classified into three categories: formation games, chase games, and elimination games.

The Games People Play: A Comment on the Utility of Being Hanged on the Gallows

In a recent issue of JPKE (Winter 1979-80), John M. Blatt considers the case of an individual who must evaluate the prospect of an illegal venture or game which is potentially very profitable (with a possible payoff of M dollars) but for which the death penalty is imposed with probability p. Blatt draws on the work of Karl Borch and concludes from his analysis of this case that he has found a counterexample demonstrating that the preference orderings of practical businessmen do not necessarily correspond to those derived from expected utility theory. This counterexample is one which he believes to be particularly relevant to situations involving risk of disaster (e.g., bankruptcy). In this comment we will argue

Games People Play

Games People Play

Games People Play at Christmas

Games People Play at Christmas

Situation ethics and transactional analysis

It is the purpose of this paper to establish an analogy between two separate but related fields of human behavior: situation ethics and transactional analysis. Situation ethics as a concept is somewhat more heterogeneous than it appears at first glance. Nevertheless it finds its clearest modern proponent in John Fletcher. In his Situation Ethics, Fletcher postulates three alternatives in the area of moral decision-making: legalism, antinomianism, and situationism.1 Legalism suggests to one that he base his moral decisions on whatever the prevailing rules and laws of his society and/or religion may be at that time. These rules and regulations are to be viewed as authoritative directions rather than as simple guidelines or usually satisfying suggestions. he existence of a principle, law, or commandment that will apply to any given moral problem at hand is assumed. The antinomianism alternative holds that moral choices are to be made with no principles, laws, or maxims at all. Moral decisions are made rather spontaneously, follow no logical pattern, and are not consistent from one situation to the next. Finally, situationism suggests an alternative: the person makes moral choices based on the divine commandment of love. The divine commandment, "love thy neighbor," is to be the guide one follows, and the laws, rules, principles of one's religion are to be followed as guidelines to help one decide what the law of love would suggest about any given moral problem. It is obvious from such definitions that Fletcher's bias lies with situation ethics, for him the logical and rational approach lying between the irresponsible spontaneity of antinomianism and the somewhat more responsible, yet still restraining, influence of legalism. Transactional analysis Transactional analysis is a personality theory and treatment technique origi nated by a psychiatrist, Eric Berne. The theoretical details are outlined in two of his books, Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy,2 and Games People Play.3 Personality structure in transactional analysis is postulated as an interaction of three "states" within the person: Parent-Adult-Child.