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Group size, member ability, and social decision schemes on an intellective task.

Laughlin, Patrick R, Kerr, Norbert L., Davis, J., Halff, H., Marciniak, K. (1975) Group size, member ability, and social decision schemes on an intellective task. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 31 (3). pp. 522-535. ISSN 0022-3514. (doi:10.1037/h0076474) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:42563)

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Abstract

510 college students first took Part 1 of the difficult Terman Concept Mastery Test as individuals and then retook the same test as control individuals or in cooperative high-ability or low-ability groups containing 2-5 Ss. 9 a priori social decision scheme models were tested as theories of the underlying group process. An a posteriori social decision scheme was also induced from a comparative previous study with 240 4-person groups and then tested against the current groups. The best-fitting a priori social decision scheme suggested an underlying "truth-supported wins" process, a finding which was more pronounced with increasing group size and for high-ability groups. However, the a posteriori principle, representing a combination of a truth-supported wins process, strong conformity pressures against a single correct member, and an increment from grouping when no member was correct, fit the current data better than any of the a priori social decision schemes.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1037/h0076474
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User: M.L. Barnoux
Date Deposited: 21 Aug 2014 12:02 UTC
Last Modified: 05 Nov 2024 10:26 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/42563 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Kerr, Norbert L..

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