The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present:
PON Live!
New Findings in the Field of Negotiation:
Research from the PON Graduate Research Fellows
Virtual talks with:
Thursday, May 22, 2025
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Free and open to the public.
About the Talks:
Each year, the Program on Negotiation welcomes a group of outstanding doctoral students as PON Graduate Research Fellows. Our Fellows spend a year at PON researching and writing about current topics in the fields of negotiation and mediation, with the goal of publishing their work after their time at PON. Fellows go on to successful careers in academia, the legal and corporate worlds, as well as the public sector.
This session provides an opportunity for two of our Graduate Research Fellows to share and discuss their research findings with the negotiation community.
Mehran Bahmani will present his research titled “Augmentation Backlash Effects in AI-Augmented Negotiations: Examining the Role of Gender.”
Jameson Lingl will present his research titled “Zero-Sum Thinking as a Cognitive Bias: Insights and Implications for (misperceived) Resource Conflict.”
About the Speakers:
Mehran Bahmani is a Ph.D. candidate at the Schulich School of Business at York University, and a graduate research fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard University. His research focuses on areas such as AI and the future of work, conflict and cooperation, and culture. His dissertation looks at the intersection of negotiation and AI and examines how the use of AI negotiation systems can cause backlash effects for negotiators and what the role of gender is in such effects.
Jameson Lingl is a Ph.D. candidate at the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Tilburg University, a Visiting Fellow with The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre, and visiting researcher with both the Civic Innovation and Law, Governance, and Social Justice research groups at the International Institute for Social Studies of Erasmus University of Rotterdam. His main interest is in the psychology of resource conflicts and understanding how people think about conflicts regarding the distribution of resources. In his dissertation, he studies zero-sum thinking in conflicts related to race. While working with the Harvard Program on Negotiation, he combined knowledge about zero-sum thinking with insights from negotiation and conflict resolution practices.
Lingl teaches mediation courses and works as a consultant and conflict management coach with the Land Use and Natural Resources program and the Collaboration Center at UC Davis’ Division of Continuing and Professional Education.
Accommodation Statement:
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