He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it.
Design and control of computer systems that operate in uncertain, competitive or adversarial, environments can be facilitated by formal modelling and analysis.
That environment is very confidential, secretive, competitive, and adversarial.
Participants who put together the rough puzzle ranked the interaction as more adversarial and competitive than did those who put together the smooth puzzle.
However, in this study triadic relationships sometimes led to adversarial and competitive roles and collusive alliances between two parties were formed, excluding the third party, consistent with a study by Adams and Gardiner [ 66].
By contrast, the Western adversarial system of competitive elections divides the body politic against itself at the cost of consensus and long-term continuity in governance.
While academia can be on occasion adversarial, it is more commonly competitive and political.
This definition requires that there be a competitive nature to this buildup, often reflecting an adversarial relationship.
From two replicated experiments in Study 1, the results suggest that agents' cooperative and competitive attitudes in business relationships are altered as they are exposed to different supply chain conditions of partnerial and adversarial relationships.
