Presidential Young Investigator Award: Interpersonal Conflict

该奖项允许研究者追求她的研究跨越人际冲突，决策，群体和社会记忆等领域。她将认知心理学和社会认知学的核心思想融入到人际冲突研究中，为冲突研究开辟了新的视角。在她的著作中，汤普森博士解释了为什么谈判者经常假设：(1)各方的回报是零和的，(2)另一方的利益与自己的利益不相容。错误地假设所有收益加所有损失的总和为零，谈判者最终可能会得到次优结果。该奖项将支持汤普森博士开展谈判行为的实验室研究，以及以社区为基础的研究，以建立实验室研究结果的外部有效性，并探索在现实社会群体中产生更有效的冲突解决方法。汤普森博士的工作已经并将继续非常有效地为改善人际冲突解决这一普遍而重要的问题发展理论和见解。

This award allows the investigator to pursue her research spanning the areas of interpersonal conflict, decision making, groups and social memory. She combines central ideas from cognitive psychology and social cognition into the study of interpersonal conflict to create a new perspective in conflict research. In her work, Dr. Thompson addresses why negotiators often enter disputes assuming: (1) the payoffs to different parties are zero-sum, and (2) that the other party's interests are incompatible with their own. Wrongly assuming that the sum of all the gains plus all the losses is zero, negotiators can end up with sub-optimal outcomes. This award will support Dr.Thompson in carrying out laboratory studies on negotiation behavior, and community-based research to establish the external validity of laboratory research findings and to explore methods for producing more effective conflict resolution in real social groups. Dr. Thompson's work has been and will continue to be very effective in developing theory and insights for the pervasive and important problem of improving interpersonal conflict resolution.