Tag Archives: Daniel Kahneman

Modest Realism in Conflict: Top Ten Conflict Tips

Posted on May 14, 2016 by creativeconflictwisdom

Modern political discourse in the US seems to have become detached from reality in so many ways in the current 2016 Presidential Election campaign and before. So I thought it a good time to post one of our Top Ten … Continue reading →

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Biases and Heuristics: Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky and Others

Posted on November 30, 2015 by creativeconflictwisdom

One of the key perspectives of this blog is that we need to get real about conflict situations and to do this we must know about blind spots in decision making, mostly because of the work of  collaborators Max Bazerman … Continue reading →

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The Application of Daniel Kahneman’s Biases and Heuristics to Conflict

Posted on May 9, 2015 by creativeconflictwisdom

I have always found the work of Daniel Kahneman and his later collaborator Amos Tverksy very useful on the biases we show in facing reality and nowhere is this more useful than in conflict. You can read about their work … Continue reading →

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A New Moral Combo Sandwich of Stanovich, Kahneman, Haidt and Greene

Posted on April 21, 2015 by creativeconflictwisdom

Three thinkers have especially influenced my conflict thinking in recent years: Keith Stanovich for his work on the impact of our conscious and unconscious thinking processes. The latter he sees are often largely installed by genetic drives and the mental … Continue reading →

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Daniel Kahneman: This Much I Know

Posted on July 8, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

I really like the work of Daniel Kahneman and his late colleague Amos Tversky. I enjoyed this piece by Tim Adams in today’s UK Observer newspaper about Daniel’s takes on his work and life:  The 78-year-old Nobel prize-winning psychologist on … Continue reading →

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Conflict: Top Ten Contemporary Thinkers Behind This Blog

Posted on March 18, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

I thought it would be fun to list out some of the contemporary intellectual thinkers who have fed the thinking of this blog, in roughly the order I discovered them and started using their approaches in this context: William Ury*, … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Recent Books that Throw Light on Conflict

Posted on December 17, 2011 by creativeconflictwisdom

Well I guess it is the time of year for book lists, though whether you want these as gifts…These are the books I have read this year that throw most light on conflict and on my particular focus these days: … Continue reading →

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Why is it So Hard to Move from Positional Thinking?

Posted on December 12, 2011 by creativeconflictwisdom

I am reading Daniel Kahneman’s new book Thinking, Fast and Slow. It is throwing up all sorts of new insights relevant to conflict and I heartily recommend you read it. At its core is a model of the brain consisting … Continue reading →

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The Difference Between Positional and Interest Based Bargaining

Posted on December 6, 2011 by creativeconflictwisdom

Central to this blog is the profound difference between Positional aka win-lose and Interest Based aka win-win Bargaining. I posted on this last year: https://creativeconflictwisdom.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/the-top-ten-differences-between-positional-and-interest-based-bargaining/ In a nut shell, in conflict we adopt almost instant positions or demands. This is … Continue reading →

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Theory Induced Blindness

Posted on July 5, 2011 by creativeconflictwisdom

I read recently about Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman’s ‘theory induced blindness‘ that suggests that often our theories of how the world works, blind us to how the world really works. For some reason, I can’t find an original source … Continue reading →

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