The Emotional ChatGPT

Recently, the Harvard Program on Negotiation posted a blog about “Emotional Intelligence as a Negotiating Skill” (By Katie Shonk- February 12, 2024). It noted that  experts predicted that  those scoring high on emotional intelligence would have better negotiated outcomes and discusses a 2015 study by researchers Kihwan Kim of Buena [Read More]

By |March 8th, 2024|Research|

The Bias in the flip of a coin!

The Judicial Council of California Civil Jury Instructions- Instruction 5009 on Pre-deliberations-  admonishes  jurors who are about to retire to decide the verdict that while the judge knows that the jurors will not do so, he/she  is “required to advise you that you must not base your decisions on chance, [Read More]

By |November 3rd, 2023|Research|

Never Mediate During a Heat Wave!

Every day we read and/or see news of how climate change has affected or is impacting our daily lives. Well- an article in Live Science suggests that heat may cause us to be more aggressive (if not sleepy!) In an article  published in early September 2023 entitled “Hot Weather could [Read More]

By |September 29th, 2023|Research|

Naïve Realism? or Surrounded by Idiots?

In social psychology, there is a cognitive bias known as “naïve realism” which “is the human tendency to believe that we see the world around us objectively, and that people who disagree with us must be uninformed, irrational, or biased.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_realism_(psychology) That is, they are idiots. Which brings me to the book I [Read More]

By |August 18th, 2023|Research|

Misremembering Within Seconds!

In the  process of resolving any dispute, the parties usually begin by reciting the facts. Only after the facts are set out and the parties are generally in accord  with what occurred, do the parties begin to work on resolving the dispute. But suppose a party misremembers the facts?  We [Read More]

By |June 2nd, 2023|Research|

The Future Has Become the Present!

This past Sunday, 60 Minutes had a segment on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and more specifically, on BARD – the AI program created by Google. During the segment, Scott Pelley asked BARD to create a short story, and a poem which it did in seconds. And as you might recall, several [Read More]

By |April 21st, 2023|Research|
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