Collective Choice, Judgment, and Problem Solving

Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Group Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 31-55

  Stasser, Garold ^a   Dietz Uhler, Beth ^a  

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Author keywords

Cognitive tasks; Complementary resources; Cooperative performance; Judgmental tasks; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872782438     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470998458.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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