Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 101, Issue 46, 2004, Pages 16385-16389

  Hong, Lu ^a,c   Page, Scott E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIMULATION; TEAMWORK;

EID: 9244255265     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0403723101     Document Type: Article

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