On conditions for a meeting not to reach a recurrent argument

We deal with time consuming situations in the interaction stage of a meetin g, and obtain a proposition that provides a sufficient condition for a meet ing not to reach a recurrent argument. The proposition implies that decisio n makers in a meeting should have stable emotions, and should try to persua de as many decision makers as possible for the meeting to smoothly progress . (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Inc. AII rights reserved.