Quality of decision making and group norms

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 918-930

  Postmes, Tom ^a,c   Spears, Russell ^a   Cihangir, Sezgin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PILOT STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 85035866953     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.80.6.918     Document Type: Article

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