We examined the joint role of constructive and destructive interparental conflict in predicting children’s emotional insecurity and psychological problems. In Study 1, 250 early adolescents (M = 12.6 years) and their primary caregivers completed assessments of family and child functioning. In Study 2, 201 mothers and their two-year old children participated in a multi-method, longitudinal desig...

Conflict-monitoring theory argues for a general cognitive mechanism that monitors for conflicts in information-processing. If that mechanism detects conflict, it engages cognitive control to resolve it. A slow-down in response to incongruent trials (conflict effect), and a modulation of the conflict effect by the congruence of the preceding trial (Gratton or context effect) have been taken as i...

Numerous studies have shown that being able to resolve and recover from conflicts is of key importance for relationship satisfaction and stability in adults. Less is known about the importance of these relationship dynamics in adolescent romantic relationships. Therefore, this study investigated whether conflict resolution and recovery predict breakups in middle adolescent couples. Couples who ...

We study the conflict-free chromatic number χCF of graphs from extremal and probabilistic point of view. We resolve a question of Pach and Tardos about the maximum conflict-free chromatic number an n-vertex graph can have. Our construction is randomized. In relation to this we study the evolution of the conflict-free chromatic number of the ErdősRényi random graph G(n, p) and give the asymptoti...

In this paper, we present results from the study of how conflict is managed in a globally distributed free software development project. Conflict arises over the use of a nonfree tool to create a GNU Enterprise (GNUe) Website graphic. The GNUe developers resolve the conflict using Internet Relay Chat (IRC), persistent relay chats, threaded email discussions, and community digests. We characteri...

Ultimately, in a conflict it is the ability of those parties in conflict to resolve their differences that is decisive in a negotiated war-to-peace transition. Strong national capacities for dialogue and mediation support the conflict transformation potential of a society. This requires institutional mechanisms that can provide the necessary support structures, for instance through ‘Infrastruct...