Interestingly some toy stores advertise certain items prior to Christmas which they then deliberately undersupply. Satisfaction can be gained through agreement that has been forged through the concessions. Responsibility refers to the person who felt most responsible for the final deal, which may be obtaining a price lower than initially proposed. If you can generate responsibility and satisfaction on their part it may lead to more future deals. The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of reciprocal concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.īe sure to react to requests objectively, uninfluenced by the reciprocity and perceptual contrast forces. Another consequence of the rule, however, is an obligation to make a concession to someone who has made a concession to us. We have already seen that one consequence of the rule is an obligation to repay favours we have received.

The general rule says that a person who acts in a certain way toward us is entitled to a similar return action. We are obligated to the future repayment of favours, gifts, invitations, and the like.

Once you have determined that this initial offer was not a favour but a compliance tactic, react to it accordingly and be free of its influence. Instead participate fairly in the “honoured network of obligation” However, if the initial favour turns out to be a device, a trick, an artifice designed specifically to stimulate our compliance with a larger return favour, this person is not a benefactor but a profiteer. If you just widespread decline any positive intentions you miss out. Reciprocation rule is too widespread to escape and too strong to overpower once it is activated. The reciprocity rule, says that we should try to repay, in kind, what another person has provided us. Therefore, if selling items show the most expensive one first, the contrast makes subsequent ones look much more attractive. This perceptual contrast means when we compare things such as how attractive someone is after looking at supermodels we may judge them to be less attractive than they are. The contrast principle, that affects the way we see the difference between two things that are presented one after another. A quality of modern life is that “civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.” Add the word “because” it can trigger an automatic compliance response, the main example is the well known study skipping a queue at a photocopy machine, chance of moving forward is high if you give a reason.

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