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In Study 1, Carnevale's strategic choice model (Negotiation Journal, 2, 41-56, 1986) was used as an implicit theory of mediation to test the influence of mediator behavior and interest on mediator self-perceptions of concern and mediator perceptions of the likelihood of agreement. It was hypothesized that mediators with high interest, feeling greater pressure to justify their actions, should report perceptions of concern and likelihood of agreement that are more consistent with the Carnevale model than would mediators who did not feel such pressures to justify their actions. Subjects served as mediators in a simulated organizational dispute, and chose messages to send to disputants that were previously identified as representing one of the four strategies proposed by Carnevale (1986). 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