“…More competitively, negotiations may be understood as ''a process of potentially opportunistic interaction by which two or more parties, with some apparent conflict, seek to do better through jointly decided action than they could otherwise'' (Lax & Sebenius, 1986: 11). Prior research has primarily taken economic (Nash, 1950;Nash, 1953;Tversky & Kahneman, 1991) and psychological (Barry & Oliver, 1996;Brenner, Koehler, Liberman, & Tversky, 1996;Oliver, Balakrishnan, & Barry, 1994;Tversky & Kahneman, 1981) perspectives.…”