Who Negotiates and When? Individual- and Group-level differences in Negotiation Behavior and Outcomes
Abstract: Negotiation is a fundamental interpersonal tool and managerial skill, through which individuals and groups obtain some of their most consequential outcomes. This symposium focuses on how negotiators’ individual-level (e.g., personality) and group-level characteristics (e.g., gender, minority group) affect their expectations in the negotiation process and their relational and economic outcomes. In addition, the papers showcase how the negotiation context (e.g., issues, parties, training) influences the impact of these characteristics. We present research studies, using quantitative data from the field and the lab and qualitative data, that describe how the negotiation context interacts with negotiators’ individual- and group-level characteristics to affect the negotiation outcomes. We propose and test novel models that identify personality-, relationship-, and network effects in negotiation. The symposium aims to provide a broad perspective on the nature of the negotiation context, and to advance our understanding of what factors influence negotiators’ expectations and behavior before, during, and after the negotiation.
Keywords: negotiation; relationships; subjective value; personality; gender
Einav Hart, George Mason University
United States
einavi@gmail.com
Hillary Anger Elfenbein, Washington University in St. Louis
United States
hillary@post.harvard.edu
Jared Curhan, MIT-Sloan
United States
curhan@mit.edu
Noah Eisenkraft, Duke University
United States
eisenkraft@gmail.com
Daniel Ames, Columbia University
United States
daniel.ames@gsb.columbia.edu
Hannah Riley Bowles, Harvard University
United States
Hannah_Bowles@hks.harvard.edu
Deborah Wu, U. of Massachusetts at Amherst
United States
dwu@umass.edu
Bobbi Thomason, Pepperdine University
United States
bobbi.thomason@pepperdine.edu
Nilajana Dasgupta, U. of Massachusetts at Amherst
United States
nd@umass.edu
Julia Bear, Stony Brook University
United States
julia.bear@stonybrook.edu
Robin Pinkley, Southern Methodist University
United States
rpinkley@mail.cox.smu.edu
Zoe Barsness, University of Washington Tacoma
United States
zib@uw.edu
Jens Mazei, Technische Universitat Dortmund
Germany
jens.mazei@tu-dortmund.de
Nazli Bhatia, University of Pennsylvania
United States
bhatiana@upenn.edu
Dustin Sleesman, University of Delaware
United States
sleesman@udel.edu
Peter Carnevale, University of Southern California
United States
peter.carnevale@marshall.usc.edu
Marlon Twyman, University of Southern California
United States
marlontw@usc.edu
Maurice Schweitzer, University of Pennsylvania
United States
schweitzer@wharton.upenn.edu