Motivated information processing and group decision refusal

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 637-651

  Nijstad, Bernard A ^a   Oltmanns, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

conflict; decision refusal; group decision making; motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866293052     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430212454588     Document Type: Article

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