I stumbled upon a study entitled “Settlementality” by Jessica Bregant, Jennifer K. Robbennolt & Verity Winship which surveyed over 1,000 U. S. adults on their basic knowledge of settlements and what. If any, role the courts and contract law play in settlement. (Id. at 1.) Although their results were mixed [Read More]
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]
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]
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]
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]
In our day-to-day living, we have encountered those (and indeed it may even be us) who have had a conflict of interest and so have disclosed it. It may have been our real estate broker who is representing both the buyer and seller, or our medical professional who is being [Read More]
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]
Spoiler Alert: Much of the content below is computer generated created not by my brain but by computer “intelligence”! As a follow up to my blog last week about the use of AI, I decided to try out Chat GPT. I asked it two questions: (1) Explain how AI can [Read More]
