Social validation in group decision-making: Differential effects on the decisional impact of preference-consistent and preference-inconsistent information

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1477-1490

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Common knowledge effect; Group decision making; Preference consistency of information; Social validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 52749094409     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.07.012     Document Type: Article

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