Mediation Blog
Mediation Ripeness
Many decades ago, when I was in law school, I learned about the “ripeness doctrine” in my Constitutional law course. Simply stated, this doctrine limits the power of a federal court to adjudicate cases that [Read More]
Faking Emotions During A Mediation
A recent blog post (dated August 21,2023) by the staff at Harvard’s PONS (Program on Negotiation) concludes that while sincere anger may be advantageous in a negotiation, appearing to be happy may or may not [Read More]
Are You an Introvert or an Extrovert?
In my practice of mediation, I never gave this question any thought! But I should. I just finished reading a book entitled Quiet by Susan Cain (Broadway Books, New York 2013) and realized that our [Read More]
Mediation is Not Always about Settling!
A colleague of mine- Jan Frankl Shau, Esq.-recently published an article in the Los Angeles Daily Journal entitled “ A New paradigm for mediation: the role of “bearing witness” (July 28, 2023). In it, she [Read More]
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 [Read More]
Time is Money!
One Saturday afternoon, my husband and vegetated and watch a dreadful movie called “In Time “(released October 2011) . The theme of the movie is that time is literally money. In this science fiction thriller, [Read More]
