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(This is an article written by Gopakumar M, Senior Facilitator, Navgati)<\/p>\n

Let me offer you a choice of a prize: I either give you a gift of Rs 1,000 or a gift of Rs 1,500 (absolutely no strings attached to either option)<\/p>\n

Please choose what you\u2019d like.Sounds silly? Is there a possibility that you could opt for Rs 1,000?<\/p>\n

Amongst my pet peeves (of which there are many) is one about how we all believe in humans being rational \u2013 Homo economicus <\/p>\n

In this blogpost is an example where you might just opt for the thousand in that example above and feel better about it. It is about context. Context. Context. <\/p>\n

Michael Shermer in The Mind of the Market (a splendid book which I highly recommend) says: \u2026studies show that when it comes to money, neither utility nor logic prevails. Let us take one of Nobel prize winning economist Richard Thaler\u2019s favourite examples. <\/p>\n

He presented people with a choice of being either Mr. A or Mr. B in the following scenario: <\/p>\n

Mr. A is waiting in line at a movie theatre. When he gets to the ticket window he is told that as the one-hundredth-thousandth customer of the theatre, he has just won $100<\/p>\n

Mr. B is waiting in line at a different theatre. The man in front of him wins $1,000 for being the one-millionth customer of the theatre. Mr. B wins $150.<\/p>\n

Have you made your choice (be honest, please!) ?
\nAre you now smiling? ?<\/p>\n

This irrational behaviour, Dr. Thaler says, is regret aversion.<\/b> At a generic level, people are willing to earn absolutely less if they can make relatively more. We are willing to pay a price for relative rank and status, which is traded in a different form of currency \u2013 social capital. <\/p>\n

This is also the reason for another fascinating discovery: Research has shown that silver medallists feel worse, on average, than bronze medallists. (Gold medallists, obviously, feel best of all.) The effect is written all over their faces, as psychologists led by Thomas Gilovich of Cornell University found out when they collected footage of the medallists at the 1992 Olympic games in Barcelona. Gilovich’s team looked at images of medal winners either at the end of events \u2013 that is, when they had just discovered their medal position \u2013 or as they collected their medals on the podium. They then asked volunteers who were ignorant of the athlete\u2019s medal position to rate their facial expressions. Sure enough, the volunteers rated bronze medallists as consistently and significantly happier than silver medallists, both immediately after competing, and on the podium. <\/p>\n

The reason is to do with how bronze and silver medallists differ in the way they think events could have turned out \u2013 what psychologists call \u201ccounterfactual thinking\u201d. In a follow-up study, the team went to the 1994 Empire State Games and interviewed athletes immediately after they had competed. Silver medallists were more likely to use phrases like “I almost\u2026”, concentrating their responses on what they missed out on. (we are Home sapiens, after all. Whew!).<\/p>\n

Bronze medallists, on the other hand, tended to contemplate the idea of missing out on a medal altogether. These differences in counterfactual thinking make silver medallists feel unlucky, in comparison to a possible world where they could have won gold, and make bronze medallists feel lucky, in comparison to a possible world where they could have returned home with nothing!<\/p>\n

So the research seems to add a bit of scientific meat to Hamlet’s famous line “there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”, as well as revealing something about the psychology of regret. Even though we must deal with the world as it is, a vital part of life is imagining the world as it could be \u2013 thinking about a job you should have applied for (or said \u201cno\u201d to), or a stock that you should have bought when it was a quarter of its current price (but nobody remembers the reverse!). <\/p>\n

Lesson: Phrase an offer in a negotiation in a way that does not cause regret in the other person\u2019s mind (such as, \u201chad you come to me last month, I would have offered you a million more”\u2026or “you could have had the opportunity to go onsite if you had come to office last Monday when we took the decision”).<\/b><\/p>\n

To know more about how you can negotiate for a win-win and effectively manage stakeholder interests please visit http:\/\/projects.rapidmind.in\/navgati\/influencing-programs\/<\/a> and explore our range of negotiation skills training programs and influencing skills training programs.
\nOur \u2018Winfluence\u2019 program emphasizes on values based, principled negotiations that seeks mutually satisfying outcomes. Participants learn counter-intuitive ways of influencing people with whom we need to sustain long-term relationships \u2013 team members, peers, superiors and customers.<\/p>\n

Visit https:\/\/winfluence-in-action.blogspot.com\/<\/a> for more insightful reads on the topic.<\/p>\n

Our programs link leadership theory and behavioural science to the challenges leaders face at work, thus blending academic rigour with practical applicability.To know more about our leadership development programs and thework we do please write to deeepa@navgati.in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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