This article overviews prescriptive research, specifies limitations of that research direction, and introduces a complementary research approach that focuses on the judgmental limitations of negotiators. Specifically, this complementary approach examines how systematic deviations from rationality in negotiator judgment reduce the effectiveness of negotiators.
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