Information Pooling: When It Impacts Group Decision Making Export

@article{citeulike:1401219, abstract = {Three-person groups decided which of 2 professors was nominated for a teaching award. Prior to discussion, half of the information available for this decision was given to every group member (shared information), whereas the rest was evenly divided among them (unshared information). Further, this information was distributed in such a way that the correct choice was not obvious to members prior to discussion. As predicted, discussion focused more on members' shared than unshared information. However, decision quality was affected only by the amount of unshared information discussed and by member's prediscussion choice preferences. The amount of shared information discussed did not affect decision quality. These results suggest a dual-process model of how the prediscussion distribution of decision-relevant information impacts group decision-making effectiveness.}, author = {Winquist, Jennifer R. and Larson, James R.}, citeulike-article-id = {1401219}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6X01-46P4M9F-2D/2/4d7ecae58a0da7ddbc324f4b19d9fc7a}, journal = {Journal of Personality and Social Psychology}, keywords = {aggregation, group, information, psychology}, month = {February}, number = {2}, pages = {371--377}, posted-at = {2007-06-20 16:26:19}, priority = {2}, title = {Information Pooling: When It Impacts Group Decision Making}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6X01-46P4M9F-2D/2/4d7ecae58a0da7ddbc324f4b19d9fc7a}, volume = {74}, year = {1998} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1401219 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1401219 N2 - Three-person groups decided which of 2 professors was nominated for a teaching award. Prior to discussion, half of the information available for this decision was given to every group member (shared information), whereas the rest was evenly divided among them (unshared information). Further, this information was distributed in such a way that the correct choice was not obvious to members prior to discussion. As predicted, discussion focused more on members' shared than unshared information. However, decision quality was affected only by the amount of unshared information discussed and by member's prediscussion choice preferences. The amount of shared information discussed did not affect decision quality. These results suggest a dual-process model of how the prediscussion distribution of decision-relevant information impacts group decision-making effectiveness. IS - 2 JF - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology EP - 377 TI - Information Pooling: When It Impacts Group Decision Making VL - 74 SP - 371 KW - aggregation KW - group KW - information KW - psychology AU - Winquist, Jennifer AU - Larson, James PY - 1998/02// UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6X01-46P4M9F-2D/2/4d7ecae58a0da7ddbc324f4b19d9fc7a ER -