When Should I Be in the Middle? I’ve Looked at Life from Both Sides Now
Carrie Menkel-Meadow, SSRN
This autobiographical essay outlines both a personal origin story of entrance into the field of conflict resolution and mediation and some of the origin issues of the field itself. From political commitments to social justice, to individual, commercial, familial, national, political and international conflict, when is mediation appropriate and when not? What issues in conflict resolution should be handled in authoritative public fora and when does it make more sense to allow creative party tailoring...

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Why Do Basketball Teams Have a Home-Court Advantage? Travel?
Emma Young, BPS Research Digest
When the US National Basketball Association (NBA) was forced to pause the season due to Covid-19 on March 11 last year, the fans were naturally devastated. When the season resumed five months later, with the top 22 teams bubbled together and playing every game in Orlando, Florida, this was great news for the sport, and the fans — and a pair of US researchers. Andrew McHill at Oregon Health and Science University and Evan Chinoy at Leidos Inc, in San Diego, realised that the restart provided a perfect...

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Technology‐Driven Alteration of Nonverbal Cues and its Effects on Negotiation
Raiyan Abdul Baten and Ehsan Hoque, Negotiation Journal
A person’s appearance, identity, and other nonverbal cues can substantially influence how one is perceived by a negotiation counterpart, potentially impacting the outcome of the negotiation. With recent advances in technology, it is now possible to alter such cues through real‐time video communication. In many cases, a person’s physical presence can explicitly be replaced by 2D/3D representations in live interactive media. In other cases, technologies such as deepfake can subtly and implicitly...

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