“Crisis in its simplest terms is defined as an upset in a steady state… the habitual problem-solving activities are not adequate and do not rapidly lead to the previously achieved balance state.”

— Anatol Rapoport

Source: 1960s, Prisoner's dilemma: A study in conflict and cooperation (1965), p. 24

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Russian-born American mathematical psychologist 1911–2007

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