Mediation Link Round Up

From time to time for my non-Twittering readers, I round up the articles and news stories I’ve microblogged about on Twitter. Here’s the latest batch of tasty thought-snacks:

• Georgia court “deregisters” mediator for serious ethical lapses, including violation of confidentiality, thanks to mediator and blogger Chris Annunziata.
• Browsing the disputed web – Firefox extensions to uncover alternative viewpoints via Campus-ADR Weblog.
• A useful collection of video clips for trainers and teachers for lessons about communication, conflict resolution, negotiation, or leadership, thanks to Daniel Horsey.
• Superb PDF download: “The One Minute Manager Prepares for Mediation: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Negotiation Preparation” by Donald R. Philbin, Jr., with a hat tip to Geoff Sharp.
• Food industry’s answer to Big Tobacco – controlling America’s brain to influence food consumption.
• Stressed men but not stressed women more likely to gamble, take risks, according to study.
• Estate planning in a digital age – When you’re dead, how will your loved ones break your passwords?
• If you purchased the original edition of Predictably Irrational, the publisher will email you subsequent new material in PDF.
• For anyone interested in participatory democracy, here’s an outstanding post on John Folk-Williams’s blog Cross Collaborate on success in deliberative democracy
• Honoring collaboration: community-based work and the importance of being integrative, on Neuroanthropology.
• Evidence of gender bias against women…by women? A dramatic study from the theatre world, via Work Matters.
• The legalese hall of shame: a collection of impenetrable legal prose, thanks to Set in Style.
• Even with the familiar, we’re hopeless at noticing change – test yourself with these images of a U.S. dime, on Cognitive Daily.
• Put conflict resolution on United Nations climate change conference agenda, via Victoria Pynchon’s Settle It Now.
• Walk a mile in my shoes: understanding empathy through spatial metaphors, via Science Daily.
• Rhythms of conversation – how do different cultures take turns to talk?, on Not Exactly Rocket Science.

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Every couple of weeks I round up here at Mediation Channel the links to articles I’ve shared with my followers on Twitter. (For those of you not familiar with this popular social media tool, you may wish to read “Negotiating Twitter: a mediator test drives the hot social media craze“, an article I recently wrote.)

Here’s the latest batch for your reading pleasure. I hope you find them interesting, useful, or just plain entertaining:

• Haggling for fun at the 99-cent store: lessons for negotiating in economic tough times via Salon.com.
• Newsflash! Employees treated fairly less likely to sue, according to management lawyer in podcast interview.
• Another reason to avoid trial: in judging others, juries view mitigating information differently depending on the individual in question, from Psychology Today.
• Cha-ching! To soothe sting of rejection or physical pain, think about money, according to an article on science blog Not Exactly Rocket Science.
• Blame your parents for bad money choices: our genes influence how we make economic decisions, according to a recent study.
• Make a joyful noise – celebrating peace and religious tolerance through hip-hop, a collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian musicians.
• An article on Time’s web site discusses studies that suggest that stereotypes defeat those who are stereotyped, causing them to perform less well in stressful situations.
• Getting to yes at home: Women need to build negotiation skills to get a fair deal from spouses, significant others.
• In the debate over judicial activism and neutrality, one judge makes the case that right or left, all judges are activists because of the extent to which our personal experiences color our perceptions.
• For solo business owners (and that includes mediators), a smart article on creating the illusion of size to compete effectively with bigger firms, via Law Practice Today.
• Subliminal messages: Imperius curse or free-speech right? Thought-provoking article on neuromarketing and constitutional law from the Neuroethics and Law Blog.
• Courtesy of Esquire, here are the 5 tackiest lawyer ads ever. Hat tip to law blogger Chris Annunziata.

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