Folger, Poole, and Stutman write about the importance of conflict and the potential of conflict interaction, by which they mean that there are advantages to conflict, positive functions deriving from conflict. The authors note that conflict is something everyone experiences and so ask why social scientists and others persist in telling us about something we already know
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