The Interactive Effects of Mood and Trait Negative Affect in Group Decision Making

Organization Science

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 731-744

  van Knippenberg, Daan ^a   Kooij de Bode, Hanneke J M ^a   van Ginkel, Wendy P ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distributed information; Elaboration; Group decision making; Group dynamics; Group performance; Group processes; Mood; Negative affectivity; Team performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957000400     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1090.0461     Document Type: Article

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