REPORTS THE RESULTS OF 2 EXPERIMENTS EMPLOYING A 2-PERSON BARGAINING GAME WITH BILATERAL THREAT. IN THE 1ST, 1/2 THE SS WERE TUTORED IN COMMUNICATING FAIR PROPOSALS, AND 1/2 WERE NOT SO TUTORED. SS ACHIEVED SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER JOINT PAYOFFS WHEN TUTORED. EXP. II VARIED THE TIME PERIOD DURING WHICH PRETRIAL COMMUNICATION WAS PERMITTED: EITHER BEFORE TRIALS 1-7 OR BEFORE TRIALS 8-14. COMMUNICATION OCCURRING BEFORE THE EARLY TRIALS WAS CONSIDERED TO BE PREDEADLOCK; COMMUNICATION INITIATED ONLY AFTER THE 1ST 7 TRIALS WAS CONSIDERED TO BE POSTDEADLOCK. JOINT PAYOFFS WERE HIGHER WHEN COMMUNICATION WAS INITIATED POSTDEADLOCK. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)