Re: Confidence: A Basic Politics Puzzle

From: Kathryn Aegis (aegis@igc.apc.org)
Date: Thu Feb 20 1997 - 19:11:45 MST


Robin Hanson:
>Kathryn Aegis writes:
>>Conflict theory states that the items that are less important to each
>>side lend themselves to multiple avenues of negotiation, whereas
>>parties tend to become entrenched on the bigger, or underlying issues
>>involving face, power, authority, or influence.
>This would argue for a differential confidence among political issues,
>but not for a difference between politics and say psychotherapy.

I'm going to admit to a low confidence here and ask you to please
amplify your response. How do you compare politics and
psychotherapy, and how does that play into issue negotiation?

Sin,

Kathryn Aegis



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