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Blaming is an easy mode to fall into, particularly when you feel that the other side is indeed responsible. But even if blaming is justified, it is usually counterproductive. Under attack, the other side will become defensive and will resist what you have to say. They will cease to listen, or they will strike back with an attack of their own. Assessing blame firmly entangles the people with the problem.
Getting to Yes
Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton
PRIMING EFFECTS that psychological experiments often reveal to our great surprise. Indeed, they seem to contradict the premise of William James’s reasoning, according to which ‘Millions of items of the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience.’ In reality, it turns out that the presence of a thing in our sensory field affects our way of thinking, speaking and acting, without our being aware of it.
The Ecology of Attention
Yves Citton
Most people are completely and unreflectively seduced by the rhetoric of reason. And incidentally, some recent influential work in evolutionary theory suggests that this may be the whole purpose of logic – not to understand, but to persuade, to seduce, others and win a competitive argument.
The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning
Iain McGilchrist
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