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Antonija Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Positive effect

Hello, can you please help me with the following?

I was wondering whether you can have 'a positive effect on satisfaction of somebody':

According to Graham's findings, cooperation had a positive effect on the profit of the source of cooperation itself and on the satisfaction of the other party to whom the cooperation had been directed /28, p. 468/.
  

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Antonija I was wondering whether you can have 'a positive effect on the satisfaction of somebody': To me, this seems OK, but I have a few other quibbles. Since cooperation is two-way and more or less symmetrical, I don't really understand the distinction between the "source of cooperation" and "the party to whom the cooperation had been directed". Is the "source" the person who instigated the cooperation perhaps?

— Mr Wordy

  • Antonija I was wondering whether you can have 'a positive effect on the satisfaction of somebody': To me, this seems OK, but I have a few other quibbles.
  • Since cooperation is two-way and more or less symmetrical, I don't really understand the distinction between the "source of cooperation" and "the party to whom the cooperation had been directed".
  • Is the "source" the person who instigated the cooperation perhaps?
  • I also don't understand the purpose of the word "itself".
  • "profit" implies profit in a financial sense for the first party, while "satisfaction" suggests a reward of a more general nature for the other.
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AntonijaI was wondering whether you can have 'a positive effect on the satisfaction of somebody':
To me, this seems OK, but I have a few other quibbles.

Since cooperation is two-way and more or less symmetrical, I don't really understand the distinction between the "source of cooperation" and "the party to whom the cooperation had been directed".
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Yes, I think the source is the person who initiated the cooperatiton.
I don't know wheter the distinction between satisfaction and profit is deliberate.

The context here is negotiation with win-win solutions, so I guess both sides should get profit and satisfaction, but the author of the original text made this distinction, so I guess I will have to make it too.
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AntonijaYes, I think the source is the person who initiated the cooperatiton.
In that case, I think it would be clearer to use the word "instigator".
Antonija so I guess both sides should get profit and satisfaction, but the author of the original text made this distinction, so I guess I will have to make it too

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Thank you very much Mr Wordy. Your posts are very helpful.
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