Sunday, April 17, 2016

Lauren Duncan Blog #5 Bisociation-Displacement Model

Lauren Duncan
Bisociation-Displacement Model Applied To My Personal Life 

Marianella Sclavi states, “I suggest the theoretical underpinnings of a model for approaching conflict in which displacements and surprise, playfulness, humor and “punch lines” can serve to reframe issues and open up avenues for consensus building and resolution.”  The bisociation-displacement model can be applied to the conflicts that take place in our personal lives today. This model serves as a way to determine others views and opinions that arise in conflicts found between you and the other party. It also aids as a way to find humor in even the hardest of circumstances. In fact, Gregory Bateson states, “Establishing a play frame promotes a congenial atmosphere of happiness, lightness, even laughter.” An example of a conflict that has taken place in my own life that is a replication of this is a fight that took place between my best friend and I. She went to college at Texas Tech and recently graduated this past December. Time flew by and I never made it to Tech to visit her, this obviously making her very upset as she’d been to College Station twice to see me. Long story short, we experienced adversarial and collaborative frames throughout the process. I took the collaborating stand and wanted Megan to eventually adopt to that idea as well. It took time and consideration, but she finally agreed to look past it and move on with our friendship. When adopting this model in the conflict we experienced, we found that all emotions are good, even those that may appear to be negative at first glance. Whether it was anger or agreeing on something, we found that emotions on both spectrums aided in the evaluation of our conflict. In addition, accepting displacement in this instance (for me this was accepting that I’d made a mistake by never visiting her, and for her it was learning to forgive me) actually helped us each see eye to eye and come to a resolution. As you can see, the bisociation-displacement model is truly something we can learn a lot from and utilize in our personal lives.



Reference:

Sclavi, M. (2008), The Role of Play and Humor in Creative Conflict Management. Negotiation Journal, 24: 157–180. 

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