Question

Yakov sees sven in the quad and says, "hey, sven. where were you? i thought we were going to meet at mcdonald's for lunch." sven responds, "hey, man. i was there. where were you?" yakov says, "i was there at noon, like we agreed, and waited 30 minutes for you to show up." sven says, "i was there at noon and didn't see you. hey, wait a minute. which mcdonald's did you go to? i was at the one on campus." yakov says, "well that explains it. i was at the one on the main highway." what kind of conflict does this situation reflect?

Answer 1

The correct answer is pseudoconflict. Pseudoconflict is a conflict by which the people that are associated to this conflict has a certain agreement but the agreement that the two parties have may be distorted based on the perceptions and misunderstandings that may arise.