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- Smoothing/accommodating emphasises areas of agreement and plays down the differences in order to preserve the relationship. It produces a lose-win outcome: one party's concerns give way to the other's, so the underlying issue survives and normally resurfaces later. It is a reasonable choice when the relationship matters more than the point in dispute, but it settles the atmosphere rather than the conflict.