The Fox Borrows The Tiger's Fierceness—An Experimental Study

In social life,this phenomenon that Chinese called the fox borrows the tiger's fierceness,is widespread.But most of the time,scholars have ignored this phenomenon.From the perspective of the elementary theory,this paper constructs its models and designs two experiments.Elementary Theory focuses on the interaction between people and divides the human interaction into three categories: exchange,conflict and coercion.David Willer,Barry Markovsky and others people presented the Network Exchange Theory by exchange relation.The conflict relation was deeply analyzed by Cosa and Dahrendorf.Professer Liu made a systematic study on the coercion relation,especially indirect coercion,he proposed many models of indirect coercion.In this paper,author wants to study one of the formal models he proposed——the fox borrows the tiger's fierceness.The author constructs single low power player model(including one high power player,one middleman,one low power player)and two low power palyers model(including one high power player,one middleman,two low power players).According to above models,author puts forward 5 hypotheses.Experiments show that,in the first structure,with a variety of strategies,middlemen can get 5 points each round(10 points resources),and low power players only get 2 points.Because of the high cost,single low power player seldom uses his right to prosecute other people.In the second structure,using a variety of strategies,the points of low power players have risen considerably.Low power players who have the same svo prefer to form coalition.Among them,the points of self-interest players significantly higher than pro-social players.