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Accurate, Deceptive, and No Prior Feedback About Decisionmaking Acumen as an Influencer of Group Decisionmaking
Author(s) -
Frederickson William A.,
Kizziar Gary
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1973.tb02799.x
Subject(s) - psychology , task (project management) , social psychology , group (periodic table) , control (management) , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , chemistry , management , organic chemistry , economics
Eighteen groups of four subjects each performed the “Lost on the Moon” task before and after group discussion of the task. The major variable manipulated involved the influence of a group member's knowledge about his pretest performance on group decisionmaking. It was found that the greatest influence is exerted by individuals told by the experimenter that their performance was the most accurate when it was actually the least accurate. Under this influence synergy, although achieved, was impeded relative to gains made by the control condition and the condition where the “piant” actually had the most accurate score within his group on a pretest.