Attributions for Poor Group Performance as a Predictor of Perspective-Taking and Subsequent Group Achievement: A Process Model

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 31-47

  Reimer, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

attribution; group problem solving; partner space; Tower of Hanoi

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993725195     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430201041003     Document Type: Article

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