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Abstract: The present study examined the effects of debriefing on 171 Japanese
university students as part of an international collaboration between Austria and
Japan. There were eight experimental conditions, as follows: control group
without treatment, fun game with no debriefing, Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) game
with no debriefing, PD game with self-completed debriefing, PD game with
guided written debriefing, PD game with guided written debriefing and a conceptual
frame, no game but reading of a text, and no game but study of a picture.
Following completion of these activities, groups of four participants then played
the Highway Planning Game [1], which deals with cooperation and conflict.
Although performance during the Highway Planning Game did not significantly
differ among the groups (probably because of the small number of groups), there
were interesting differences in terms of performance and attitudes that will
stimulate further research.