Why groups perform better than individuals at quantitative judgment tasks: Group-to-individual transfer as an alternative to differential weighting

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 24-36

  Schultze, Thomas ^a   Mojzisch, Andreas ^b   Schulz Hardt, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discretionary group tasks; Group judgment; Group learning; Group performance; Group to individual transfer; Quantitative estimates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858749327     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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