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  "url": "/knowledge/compare-two-cases-until-their-shared-structure-becomes-explicit",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-1018",
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  "title": "Compare two cases until their shared structure becomes explicit",
  "summary": "Two stories become a tool when you can name what plays the same role in both.",
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  "body": "Place two cases side by side and map their goals, constraints and relationships. Describe the common mechanism without relying on surface names. Then test that abstraction on a third case. This analogical encoding method has supportive evidence in novice negotiation learning; transfer elsewhere still needs checking.",
  "limits": [
    "A vivid resemblance can conceal a crucial difference. Comparing cases is not evidence that every detail transfers or that the proposed mechanism is correct."
  ],
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  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "In the cited negotiation studies, comparing cases to abstract a shared schema improved learning and transfer relative to studying the cases separately.",
      "source_id": "RS-8BE76235212AA74D",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Benefits in novice negotiation tasks do not establish identical effects for every subject or every pair of examples.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
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  "use_when": [
    "You remember examples but fail to recognize the same underlying problem in a new setting."
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  "avoid_when": [
    "A vivid resemblance can conceal a crucial difference. Comparing cases is not evidence that every detail transfers or that the proposed mechanism is correct."
  ],
  "example": "A delivery agreement and a support arrangement both exchange flexible timing for a more predictable workload. The shared trade matters more than their different labels.",
  "check": "The learner uses the structural relation on a fresh case and identifies when the analogy breaks.",
  "template": "Case A roles and constraints: [case a]. Corresponding structure in case B: [case b]. Shared mechanism: [principle]. Important mismatch: [limit]. Prediction for a new case: [transfer].",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-8BE76235212AA74D",
      "title": "Learning and transfer: A general role for analogical encoding",
      "url": "https://experts.illinois.edu/en/publications/learning-and-transfer-a-general-role-for-analogical-encoding/"
    }
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