Negotiation Strategy Test
Prepare for a humanitarian negotiation
You will review a short refugee-camp negotiation case, prepare a strategy for your assigned side, and answer questions about what you understood from the materials.Chatbot
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How the reading stage works
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Your taskYou are preparing to negotiate on behalf of your assigned side in a fictional humanitarian negotiation. Your goal is to understand the case well enough to explain your side's priorities, the other side's likely priorities, and a realistic way forward.
TimingYou will first complete a short interface overview. The paid task starts after that overview, when the real case appears and the 15-minute reading timer begins. After reading, you will have 17 minutes for written questions, split into four 5-minute sections.
What you are looking forUse the reading stage to collect information that will help you answer these questions later:
- Your side: negotiated issues, objectives, redlines, and cost of no agreement.
- Other side: likely objectives, redlines, and cost of no agreement.
- Overlap: explicit agreements, shared underlying goals or needs, and conflicts.
- Plan: a realistic package, clarification questions, an opening, and what to avoid saying or doing.
After the timed reading stage, you will answer written questions about the issues being negotiated, each side's objectives and redlines, the cost of no agreement, where the sides agree or conflict, a realistic package you would propose, what you would clarify, how you would open, and what you would avoid saying or doing.
Study rulesDuring the reading stage, do not take screenshots, photos, or external notes. Do not use outside AI tools or websites. Use only the materials and tools provided in this study.
- You will have 15 minutes to read the case files.
- Use the numbered list on the left to switch between files.
- You can keep notes in the panel on the right.
Carried into the writing stage: your notes will be shown back to you beside the survey questions.
- You will have 15 minutes to read the case files. Use the numbered list on the left to switch between files.
- An AI chat is on the right. You can ask it anything about the case.
- Highlight any passage in a document and click "Copy to AI" to ask about that passage.
Carried into the writing stage: your notes and your full chat history will be shown back to you beside the survey questions.
- You will have 15 minutes to read the case files. Use the numbered list on the left to switch between files.
- On the right is your preparation sheet: the AI has already filled three structured modules (what each side wants, where they agree and disagree, and how a deal could work) from the case files. Every point cites its source — click a citation to check it against the document.
- Useful evidence for the open section is highlighted in the documents. Press Save quote to add it to Notes; similar passages are then marked Similar saved.
- A reading guide chat sits below the sheet. Ask it where to start or what a section means.
Carried into the writing stage: the preparation sheet and your chat history will be shown back to you beside the survey questions.
- You will have 15 minutes to read the case files. Use the numbered list on the left to switch between files.
- On the right is your preparation sheet with three structured modules. Module 01 is the same complete, cited AI-prepared analysis shown in the AI-prepared condition. Modules 02 and 03 start blank. Write at least one complete thought, then ask the AI to build on your draft. It only extends ideas you supplied; empty fields stay empty, case files verify and cite your agenda, and the result never overwrites your text.
- In Workable packages, write an initial option first. The AI can then combine that option with your earlier participant artifacts and saved evidence to produce up to two variants of the same option. You decide when to generate or update them. You can also view or edit the instruction the AI receives.
- Useful evidence for the open section is highlighted in the documents. Press Save quote to insert a source-labeled evidence row above that field's writing area and copy it to Notes.
- A reading guide chat sits below the sheet. Ask it where to start or what a section means.
Carried into the writing stage: your preparation sheet — what you wrote and the AI's responses — and your chat history will be shown back to you beside the survey questions.
- You will have 15 minutes to read the case files. Use the numbered list on the left to switch between files.
- Use the same document-aware AI chat available in the chat condition. Ask questions naturally as you read.
- On the right, your preparation sheet proposes updates from your conversation. It starts empty but uses the same three-module layout as the AI-prepared condition. As you talk, it organizes the positions, concerns, agreements, conflicts, options, implementation checks, and risks you raise.
- Your first substantive exchange fills the sheet automatically. Later changes appear as focused revisions inside the affected cells; apply the update or keep the current sheet.
- When one point needs more thought, the sheet highlights one cell and offers a short next-topic cue. During the first seven minutes, that cue stays in the first two modules.
- Useful evidence for the open section is highlighted in the documents. Press Save quote to keep it in Notes.
Carried into the writing stage: your preparation sheet and full chat history will be shown back to you beside the survey questions.
- You will have 15 minutes to read the case files. Use the numbered list on the left to switch between files.
- On the right is your preparation sheet with three structured modules. Module 01 is the same complete, cited AI-prepared analysis shown in the AI-prepared condition. Modules 02 and 03 start blank.
- In module 02, write at least one complete thought, then ask the AI to build on your draft, using the same support available in Condition 5. The AI response stays separate from your writing.
- Challenge is available only in module 03. Press Pressure-test: a fixed challenge framework checks your claims, inference gaps, unsupported assumptions, and missing positions against the case documents. Results are grouped by the claim you need to revisit, with all four framework checks summarized above them. Each challenge explains where the analysis breaks — never how to fix it. When the record supports a possible way through, the challenge also shows up to two amber passage clues. Read them inline or open the source in one click; the AI leaves the connection for you to make.
- You close each challenge yourself: revise your original analysis and re-test it, or accept it as an open risk. Put your reasoning and evidence in the preparation sheet — there is no separate response box.
- Useful evidence for the open editable section is highlighted in the documents. Press Save quote to insert a source-labeled evidence row above that field's writing area and copy it to Notes.
- A reading guide chat sits below the sheet. It can locate passages and explain sections, but it does not answer, evaluate, or repair your analysis.
Carried into the writing stage: your preparation sheet — what you wrote, the challenges, and how you resolved them — and your chat history will be shown back to you beside the survey questions.
- The case files are cards on a whiteboard. Add an analysis card from the toolbar when you want to work on it. In this version, you fill the card one box at a time.
- Click a specific box, such as FWB's bottom line. The reader will then focus on source quotes for that box. You can add a highlighted quote, skip to the next relevant quote, or select your own text and add it to the current box.
- You can remove quotes, move them to another box, or pin a quote to the board as a sticky note. After generation, use Source quotes to inspect or change the evidence behind each part of the card.
- The chatbot in the corner guides your reading and can update your cards if you ask it to.
Carried into the writing stage: your notes, chat history, board cards, and selected source quotes will be shown back to you beside the survey questions.
Reading time ended
Next stage: written preparation survey
You will now answer questions about the negotiation in four timed sections (5:00, 3:30, 3:30, and 5:00). Unused time carries forward to the next section, but you cannot go back after moving on. You will not see the full case files, but the notes, chat history, board cards, and selected source quotes available in your assigned condition will appear beside the questions as reference material. You do not need to write detailed prose. Concise bullet points and incomplete sentences are enough and will not be penalized.Notes
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