Liberman, samuels, and ross (2004) randomly assigned participants previously identified as cooperative or competitive to play a game that was labeled either the wall street game or the community game. if their results had indicated that, no matter what the game, participants who were identified as competitive behaved more competitively in both groups than did participants who were identified as cooperative, these findings would have suggested that

cooperation and competition are based on personality characteristics that are consistent across social situations.  

Explanation:

According to the experiment done by Samuels, Liberman, and Ross (2004); in which they assigned the participants who have already been identified as cooperative and competitive performed accordingly. The participants, who have been considered as competitive performed more competitively as compared to participants being considered as cooperative, because an individual's personality characteristics remain same or consistent through various social situations.