How self-regulation helps to master negotiation challenges: An overview, integration, and outlook.
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Authors
En route to crafting profitable deals, negotiators face abundant challenges—from overcoming anger, to dealing with low power, to seeking hidden integrative opportunities. Here, we argue that self-regulation can help to master these negotiation challenges and improve negotiation outcomes. To this end, we provide a review of the literature on negotiation challenges and integrate it with selfregulation research. Based on the cybernetic feedback model of self-regulation and the phase model of negotiations, we structure the literature and argue how and why prominent self-regulation techniques such as specifying goals, mental contrasting, and if–then plans help to master negotiation challenges. In addition, we expand on the less researched self-regulation technique of self-monitoring and how it may help to achieve negotiation goals. We conclude that self-regulation provides a powerful toolbox to master the challenges that negotiators face at the bargaining table, identify limitations of the extant literature, and suggest avenues for future research.
| Original language | English | 
|---|---|
| Journal | European Review of Social Psychology | 
| Volume | 26 | 
| Issue number | 1 | 
| Pages (from-to) | 203-246 | 
| Number of pages | 44 | 
| ISSN | 1046-3283 | 
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 01.01.2015 | 
| Externally published | Yes | 
- Business psychology - self-regulation, Negotiations, Goal-setting, If-Then plans
 
Research areas
- Social Psychology
 
