The Tipping Core: Cohesion Dynamics, Partition Externalities, and Discrimination in Joint Operations

• In Event: Psychological Aspects of Conflict Processes

Brief Overview

A cooperative game model of military cohesion where biased leader signals, rumor amplification, and partition externalities destabilize mixed teams. Cohesion hinges on a tipping core condition, making discrimination an endogenous stability failure

Author

• Abhra Roy, Kennesaw State University