Question 15.80

4. Consider a conflict that you had—with a parent, a boss, a girlfriend or boyfriend, or some other acquaintance—in which each person had to make a choice without being sure of what the other person would do. What strategies did you seriously consider adopting, and what options do you think the other person considered? What plausible outcomes do you think each set of strategy choices would have led to? How would you rank these outcomes from best to worst, and how do you think the other player would have ranked them? In two to three pages, analyze the resulting game, and state whether you believe you and the other person made optimal choices. If not, what interfered with your or the other person’s rationality?