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THE U.S. consumer, like consumers in most postindustrial societies, shops in an environment where the majority of products and services have fixed/nonnegotiable prices (The broad area of negotiation research has consisted largely of experimental simulations investigating process and outcome variables, whereas most marketing communications research relevant to negotiated transactions has consisted of field surveys in-