“…The literature on conflict regulation (Buchs, Butera, Mugny, & Darnon, 2004;Doise & Mugny, 1984) has argued that being confronted with a coactor's diverging point of view elicits a 'socio-cognitive conflict', a conflict that is both social (i.e., a disagreement between two persons) and cognitive (i.e., doubts arise about the most adequate answer). Socio-cognitive conflict can be regulated in two ways: Focusing on the task and the answers ('epistemic conflict regulation'), or focusing on relative levels of competence and demonstrating one's own superiority (or at least avoiding showing one's own inferiority), namely 'relational conflict regulation' (Buchs et al, 2004;Butera, Darnon, & Mugny, 2010;Mugny, Paolis, & Carugati, 1984; see also Jehn, 1995, for a similar distinction).…”