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Policy conflict and policy change as a function of task characteristics II. The effect of task predictability
Author(s) -
BREHMER BERNDT
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1973.tb00115.x
Subject(s) - predictability , task (project management) , psychology , function (biology) , interpersonal communication , social psychology , cognitive psychology , similarity (geometry) , economics , statistics , computer science , artificial intelligence , mathematics , management , evolutionary biology , biology , image (mathematics)
Brehmer, B. Policy conflict and policy change as a function of task characteristics. II. The effect of task predictability. Scand. J. Psychol., 1973, 14, 220–227.‐The hypothesis, derived from experimental studies on policy formation, that the level of agreement reached in a policy conflict situation is positively related to the predictability of the policy task was tested in an experiment conducted in the “lens model” interpersonal conflict paradigm. The results supported the hypothesis, and showed the lower level of agreement in the low task predictability condition was due to the fact that the subjects' policies were less consistent in that condition. The similarity of the systematic aspects of the subjects' policies, on the other hand, was not affected by task predictability.