Openly asking for the other party’s resistance point carries risks. The other party might lie and therefore be forced to take and uncompromising stance to avoid disclosing that misrepresentation. Or if the other party honestly reveals his or her resistance point to you, that negotiators may expect you to reveal your resistance point and open yourself to being lowballed
Or, at best , to being offered an agreement that reaches no farther than the halfway point between the two resistance points. Two, if you don’t reveal your resistance point, you may violate the norm of reciprocity.