Combined effects of knowledge about others' opinions and anticipation of group discussion on confirmatory information search

Small Group Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 203-223

  Mojzisch, Andreas ^a   Schulz Hardt, Stefan ^a   Kerschreiter, Rudolf ^b   Frey, Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anticipated group interaction; Confirmation bias; Information search; Minority and majority influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849094406     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: 15528278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496408315983     Document Type: Article

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