VARIATIONS IN BEHAVIORAL STRATEGIES AND INTERPERSONAL TRUST IN A TWO-PERSON GAME WITH MALE ALCOHOLICS.

This article discusses variations in behavioral strategies and interpersonal trust in a two-person game with male alcoholics. The Ss were 21 male alcoholic patients drawn from the Alcoholism Unit at the Brockton Veterans Administration Hospital. A primary diagnosis of alcoholism in the absence of psychosis, brain damage and other organic defects and a history of at least five years of drinking problems served as the primary criteria for selection of Ss. The laboratory setting consisted of two adjoining rooms in which a small electrical switch box was set up on a table. This switch box was wired to and from a master electrical switch panel operated by the E.