CPN Negotiation Psychology & Cognitive Biases 3

Question 1

In negotiation, the scarcity principle is most effectively applied by:

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Creating or emphasizing limited availability of an offer, resource, or opportunity to increase its perceived value

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Limiting the number of agenda items to focus attention on high-priority issues

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Reducing the counterpart's alternatives by acquiring competing options before the negotiation begins

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Restricting information sharing to maintain a negotiating advantage

Question 2

Authority bias in negotiation refers to the tendency to:

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Yield to the demands of someone perceived as an expert or in a position of power, even without verifying their claims

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Grant negotiating authority only to individuals with formal titles or credentials

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Defer all final decisions to legal counsel regardless of the issues involved

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Treat the counterpart's stated authority as a negotiating tactic rather than a genuine constraint

Question 3

A skilled negotiator counters the consistency/commitment bias in the other party by:

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Getting the counterpart to make small public commitments early that align with the desired final outcome

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Repeatedly changing their own position to signal flexibility and reduce the pressure to commit

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Avoiding any discussion of prior agreements to prevent the other party from feeling locked in

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Using written documents exclusively to bypass verbal commitment effects

Question 4

Social proof as a persuasion principle in negotiation is best illustrated by which tactic?

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Demonstrating that many other buyers or sellers have accepted similar terms

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Referencing industry-standard pricing or widely accepted benchmarks to legitimize your position

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Citing peer-reviewed research to support your valuation methodology

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Showing that your proposal has received internal approval from multiple stakeholders

Question 5

Hindsight bias poses a particular risk in post-negotiation analysis because it causes negotiators to:

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Believe that the eventual outcome was predictable all along, preventing accurate learning from mistakes

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Overestimate how much the final outcome could have been improved had they used different tactics

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Discount the role of their preparation and attribute success entirely to luck

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Assign blame for poor outcomes to external factors rather than their own decisions

Question 6

The fundamental attribution error, when applied to negotiation, most commonly causes negotiators to:

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Overattribute the counterpart's behavior to their fixed character or personality while underattributing it to situational pressures

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Attribute their own concessions to strategic generosity while attributing the counterpart's concessions to weakness

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Attribute deal failures entirely to the counterpart's bad faith rather than shared misunderstandings

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Overestimate the counterpart's knowledge of their own reservation price

Question 7

The negotiator's dilemma describes the tension between which two competing impulses?

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The impulse to share information to create value versus the impulse to withhold information to claim value

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The desire to reach agreement quickly versus the desire to maximize individual gain

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The pressure to use hardball tactics versus the cultural expectation of polite behavior

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The need to satisfy internal stakeholders versus the need to satisfy the external counterpart