Round-Up Of Noteworthy Articles For Mediators, Negotiators

For the past month, I’ve been test-driving Twitter, a Web 2.0 microblogging, messaging, and social media tool. I’ll be discussing those experiences later this week, but in the meantime, I thought I’d pull together a sampling of articles I’ve been sharing with my followers on Twitter.

• Four Ways of Looking at a Lawsuit: How Lawyers Can Use the Cognitive Frameworks of Mediation“
• “Wikitruth Through Wikiorder” – a look at dispute resolution on Wikipedia
• “Saving Face: The Benefits of Not Saying I’m Sorry” – a critique of recent apology laws
• “Is There a Law Instinct?” – exploring the human impulse to create legal systems to organize social behavior
• “Getting Even vs. Being the Odd One Out: Conflict and Cohesion in Even and Odd Sized Groups” – odd-sized groups more harmonious than even-sized ones, according to study
• “Dishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: Self-Preservation through Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting” – examining the transgressions ordinary people make in daily life
• “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments“
• “Is expert memory better than non-expert memory?” – test yourself with a video
• It’s Greek to me: how different cultures express incomprehension

                       

Diane J. Levin

Diane Levin, J.D., is a mediator, dispute resolution trainer, negotiation coach, writer, and lawyer based in Marblehead, Massachusetts, who has instructed people from around the world in the art of talking it out. Since 1995 she has helped clients resolve disputes involving tort, employment, business, estate, family, and real property… MORE >