Negotiation research you can use: When Criticism Helps— and Hurts—Brainstorming

Negative feedback is often viewed as a creativity killer in negotiations, but new research finds the opposite effect under certain conditions.

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There’s usually only one hard-and-fast rule for brainstorming sessions: Don’t be critical. So entrenched is the belief that negative feedback stifles creativity that at product- design firm IDEO, team facilitators have been known to ring a bell when a team member throws cold water on another person’s idea.

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