The potential for social contextual and group biases in team decision-making: Biases, conditions and psychological mechanisms

Ergonomics

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1129-1152

  Jones, Paul E ^a   Roelofsma, Peter H M P ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bias; Command and control; Social cognition; Team decisions

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSE MECHANISM; GROUP DYNAMICS; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN RELATION; MODEL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TEAMWORK;

EID: 0033841642     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130050084914     Document Type: Article

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