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1917–1986 United States

John Walter Thibaut (1917 - Feb. 19, 1986) was an American social psychologist, and Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was one of the last graduate students of Kurt Lewin, and the first editor of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

United States
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Also known as: John W. Thibaut, John Walter Thibaut

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Power can be maintained at its maximum only if it is used considerately and sparingly.

When there is a range of opinion in the group, communications tend to be directed towards those members whose opinions are at the extremes of the range.

Solutions require thinking through a series of interrelated steps or stages, analyzing a number of rules at each point, and always keeping in mind conclusions reached at earlier points.

The enactment of fair procedures is associated with the belief that one will be able to control one's own outcomes.

In defining the CL the primary intention is to locate a psychologically meaningful mid-point for the scale of outcomes — a neutral point on a scale of satisfaction-dissatisfaction.

In this Article we propose a general framework for analyzing and classifying all conflict resolution procedures, including, of course, all procedures employed in the legal process.

The initial step in stating a theory of procedure is to recognize the fundamental dichotomy between the potential dispute resolution objectives of "truth" and "justice." This dichotomy, we suggest, is the necessary result of differences in the type of conflict involved in the dispute.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Thibaut (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.