Innovation in groups: does the proximity of others facilitate or inhibit performance?

Behaviour

Volumn 146, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1543-1564

  Overington, Sarah E ^a   Cauchard, Laure ^a   Morand Ferron, Julie ^b   Lefebvre, Louis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dunking; Innovation; Neophobia; Problem Solving; Quiscalus Lugubris; Social Foraging

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955675098     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853909X450131     Document Type: Article

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