Better than Individuals?: The Potential Benefits of Dissent and Diversity for Group Creativity

Group Creativity: Innovation through Collaboration

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Nemeth, Charlan Jeanne ^a   Nemeth Brown, Brendan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Consensus; Dissent; Divergent thinking; Group creativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920053704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195147308.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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