Negotiation & Peace?????
In this winter term, I take Peace Research class, and I found the interesting reading which relate to what we learned, the negotiation and conflict resolution. The reading is called Contribution of Positive Psychology to Peace and it analyzes the relationship between positive psychology and peace psychology. It seemed there is no relevance to our leadership class, but the author mentioned the psychological views which can be applied to our leadership studies.
The author says that positive affect reduces contentious tactics and competition, then, increase the concessions and cooperation in the conflict resolution. Moreover, it revealed by the research that happy negotiators are more likely to use more cooperative strategies during the negotiations than sad negotiators. The reason is happy negotiators plan to be cooperative before actual negotiations to achieve better agreements.
In sum, positive affect have desirable influence on the negotiations and problem solving, and if you have positive emotion, you will be able to usefully contribute in conflict resolution.
It was quite surprising for me that I did not expect the relation with Peace Research and this class. However, I could understand that resolving conflicts is somewhat the peace because it results in the resolution which means no more conflict. (This type of peace is called "Negative Peace" in terms of peace study.)
Hi Chisato,
返信削除Thanks for both of these posts, and isn't it great that your volleyball experience has given you so much in terms of understanding good leadership. And regarding the post here—welcome to liberal arts! It is making these connections between classes and areas of thought that liberal arts is all about (and of course, I am happy to see that what we are learning is being reinforced elsewhere!).
Ken