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| − | #The participants in this situation were lead into giving reasons on their point because of the controversial political stand point. They were coming from opposite political parties and in being two very different people had opposing views on the subject matter. To continue backing up their point and avoid throwing random statements out into conversation, well reasoned examples must be brought in. There was some overlap in relating the topics but not a whole lot. In the beginning of the debate there was some agreeing on the matter however as the conversation progressed this relating became less noticeable and the situation a little more tense. I believe they were thinking in stereo, all involved were thinking about the issue at hand but were not really getting anywhere near a resolution so one of the participants backed out, but they also agreed to disagree, which is sort of a resolution in its own way.
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| − | #My roommate lost her id a couple days ago and we were trying to figure out how we were going to do lunch. The tone was positive aside from the fact she didnt have the id. We engaged in in thinking in stereo about where the id may have been left or forgotten along with figuring out what to do incase she would not be let into the COG. We ended up coming to the resolution that if she couldnt get into the COG i would get her lunch elsewhere with flex since she didnt have any cash.
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| − | #While waiting in like to get into the basketball game a friend and I were looking through new book ''Food Junkie'', which is basically a cook book that only uses junk food for ingredients. Reading the ingredient lists on some of the "recipes" seems quite repulsive but others sounded somewhat decent, we agreed on and disagreed on others because he is by no means picky about what he will eat, where as i dont think that ramen, mounds and hot sauce all mixed together sounds good on any day. It was all positive be cause we would laugh at some of the combinations or say we'd like to try it. Yes at some points we were thinking in stereo because we were analyzing the recipes in front of us. There really wasn't any resolution because we just went through the book and that was the end of it.
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| − | 1. The participants in the following example, including myself, had just come back from the basketball game on Saturday, were back at our dorm, and soon found ourselves on the topic of eating. One of my girlfriends suggested that we should go eat at Spike’s since the COG was closed. I and another friend agreed with her saying that we hadn’t eaten for a few hours and were willing to go. However, one of my other friends said that she wasn’t hungry yet, so we should go to Spike’s later. The friend that suggested this was definitely not thinking in stereo and was not utilizing sympathetic understanding. This conversation dragged on un-necessarily until one of my other friends, whom I often see as the Mediator (especially in this conversation), suggested that those who were hungry should go to Spike’s and that those who weren’t should just wait and get their own food later. We eventually agreed on this resolution.
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| − | ==Caleb Erb==
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| − | # My friends and I were driving back from our winter retreat when I thought that we had passed the road that we needed to take to get home. My friends and I started arguing whether we had taken the road on the way to the retreat. All three of us were thinking in stereo, yet I had my mind set on the fact that we had taken that road on the way there and they were set on the fact that we had not. In conclusion, a resolution was made that we had in fact taken that road on the way there and had taken the long way back. We figured out that the confusion was due to the change in road names and we were both kind of right because the name of the road was different coming from the north than it was coming from the south.
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| − | # This weekend my neighbor and I were discussing the idea of carpooling because we have similar schedules this semester. In order for the carpooling to work we would have to wait for the other to get out of class before we could head home. We concluded that we would only be able to carpool on Mondays and Tuesdays because I have a late class on Wednesday and I don’t have any class on Thursdays so I would not need to carpool anyway. Even still, we were both thinking in stereo because we were both thinking economically and how we could save some money. The conversation was friendly and both parties spoke in a positive tone throughout.
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| − | # Last Sunday, my brother, my friend and I were discussing going skiing on Monday. My friend had already scheduled to work so he was committed to go up to the mountain any way, but we were deciding if my brother and I would join him up there. All three parties were thinking in stereo and were discussing if it would even be worth going if the snow was melting and it was foggy. In conclusion we decided not to join him because the previous two nights we were at a retreat and got a total of seven hour of sleep all weekend. We did not want to ski with no sleep and agreed that the snow was not going to be very good either. Throughout the conversation, all three parties stayed positive except my friend was a little frustrated towards the end of the conversation because we were not going to be joining him.
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