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An Excuse for Selfishness

Posted by & filed under Daily, Negotiation Skills.

Adapted from “Justifying Selfishness,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter.

In a study of selfishness in negotiation, Fei Song of York University and C. Bram Cadsby and Tristan Morris of the University of Guelph had participants play the “dictator game,” adapted from the experimental economics literature. In this game, Party A is given a sum of

Status Constraints in Negotiation: Gender and Global (vs. Local) Culture in the Arab Gulf

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Women and Public Policy Program Seminar:

Status Constraints in Negotiation:
Gender and Global (vs. Local) Culture in the Arab Gulf
with

Associate Professor Hannah Riley Bowles
Date: December 2, 2010
Time: 11:40am-1:00pm
Where: WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 1st floor

About the Seminar: Studies conducted in the rapidly globalizing Arab Gulf illuminate university students’ psychological experiences of the global and local

Daniel Shapiro featured in article about negotiation in Oprah Magazine

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In her article Mastering the Art of Making a Deal, Valerie Monroe consults Professor Daniel Shapiro for advice on negotiation. The article chronicles Monroe’s attempt to negotiate all of her transactions over the course of a day. Monroe references Beyond Reason, by Professor Shapiro and Professor Roger Fisher as well as William Ury’s book Getting

When the Sexes Face Off

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Adapted from “Battles of the Sexes,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter.

What happens when men and women compete with one another for scarce resources? In a fascinating series of studies, Professor Laura Kray of the University of California at Berkeley and her colleagues show that gender stereotypes have unexpected effects on the behavior of pairs

Kimberlyn Leary

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Kimberlyn Leary is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Chief Psychologist at the Cambridge Health Alliance and. In 2009, received an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, attending on a Public Services Fellowship.

Professor Leary’s major areas of teaching, clinical activity and research are directed at enhancing effective clinical practice in psychotherapy and

Mari Fitzduff

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Mari Fitzduff is currently the Director and Professor of the Master’s Program in Coexistence and Conflict, and the Master’s Dual Degree Program in Development and Coexistence at Brandeis University.  Previously she was Director of UNU/INCORE, the United Nations International Conflict Research center. From 1990 – 1997 she was the Founding Director of the Community Relations

Mediation Curriculum: Trends and Variations

Posted by & filed under Daily, Mediation, Pedagogy at the Program on Negotiation (Pedagogy @ PON).

NP@PON collected many types of curriculum materials from teachers and trainers who attended the 2009 Mediation Pedagogy Conference.  We received general materials about classes on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) as well as highly specific and idiosyncratic units like Conflict Resolution through Literature: Romeo and Juliet and a negotiating training package for female managers from the

When women make good agents

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Adapted from “When Does Gender Matter in Negotiation?” by Dina W. Pradel (vice president, Y2M), Hannah Riley Bowles (professor, Harvard Kennedy School), and Kathleen L. Mcginn (professor, Harvard Business School), first published in the Negotiation newsletter.

Businesspeople often wonder whether men or women are better negotiators. According to research, gender is not a reliable predictor of

Jared Curhan, PON Executive Committee

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Jared R. Curhan is the Ford International Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Organization Studies at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he specializes in the psychology of negotiation and conflict resolution. He received his BA in Psychology from Harvard University and his MA and PhD in Psychology from Stanford University. A recipient of support from the National Science Foundation, Curhan has pioneered a social psychological approach to the study of “subjective value” in negotiation (i.e., social, perceptual, and emotional consequences of a negotiation).

Iris Bohnet

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Iris Bohnet, Academic Dean and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, teaches decision-making and negotiation in both degree and executive programs. She is an associate director of the Laboratory for Decision Science, and faculty co-chair of the executive program “Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century” for the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders.