Productivity is not enough: A comparison of interactive and nominal brainstorming groups on idea generation and selection

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 244-251

  Rietzschel, Eric F ^a   Nijstad, Bernard A ^a   Stroebe, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Group brainstorming; Group creativity; Idea generation; Idea quality; Idea selection; Nominal groups; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044462056     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2005.04.005     Document Type: Article

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