Having Too Many Options Can Make You a Worse Negotiator

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Having Too Many Options Can Make You a Worse Negotiator. / Schaerer, Michael ; Loschelder, David; Swaab, Roderick I.
In: Harvard Business Review, Vol. Online, No. 05/2017, 2017.

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Schaerer M, Loschelder D, Swaab RI. Having Too Many Options Can Make You a Worse Negotiator. Harvard Business Review. 2017;Online(05/2017). Epub 2017 May 24.

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title = "Having Too Many Options Can Make You a Worse Negotiator",
abstract = "The conventional wisdom about negotiating – whether for a job salary or the price of a house – is that you{\textquoteright}re better positioned to get what you want when you have more alternative offers to leverage. But recent research shows that having alternative offers does not always help you. In a series of experiments, the authors found that walking into a negotiation with multiple offers, rather than a single one, can actually bias your decisions and lead you to make a lower first offer, hurting your ability to negotiate the outcome you want.",
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year = "2017",
language = "English",
volume = "Online",
journal = "Harvard Business Review",
issn = "0017-8012",
publisher = "Harvard Business School Publishing",
number = "05/2017",

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