Cognitive Flexibility, Communication Strategy, and Integrative Complexity in Groups: Public versus Private Reactions to Majority and Minority Status

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 202-226

  Gruenfeld, Deborah H ^a   Thomas Hunt, Melissa C ^a   Kim, Peter H ^a  

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EID: 0032397520     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jesp.1997.1349     Document Type: Article

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