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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"group decision making"”.
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Essays in group decision-making
… both of them essentially examine the problem of making decisions that affect some group of individuals. The first essay is on moral hazard and looks at the principal's problem in a principal-agent(s) free-rider problem in which, unlike most existing work, the principal is not precluded from …
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Dynamics of Group Decision-Making
… Theory, specifically the dynamics of decision-making. The first explores how the desire for conformity results in long-run misperceptions due to uninformative decision-making. The second chapter studies multi-project collaborative experimentation. The final chapter analyzes whether …
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A Comparison of Three Group Decision-Making Strategies and Their Effects on the Group Decision-Making Process
… of this experiment was to compare three group decision-making strategies and their effects on the group decision-making process. Two of the strategies, Dialectical Inquiry and Devil's Advocacy, were structured while the control condition, Unstructured Consensus Seeking, was non-directed, …
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Group Decision-Making and Strategic Position Change
Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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Information, Influence and Technology in Group Decision-Making
… the relation between information pooling and group decision making has suggested a disturbing conclusion: that group members fail to pool uniquely held information, leading to suboptimal group decisions. Instead, group members tend to discuss information with which they are all already …
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Improving Group Decision Making with Collaborative Brain-Computer Interfaces
Groups are generally superior to individuals in making decisions. However, time constraints and authoritarian leaders could nullify the potential advantages provided by groups. This thesis proposes a hybrid collaborative Brain-Computer Interface (cBCI) for improving performance in group …
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Conformity and confirmation: group decision-making in foreign policy
… do not make history-altering foreign policy decisions on their own. They evaluate options and set foreign policy in consultation with small groups of experts and advisors. In this dissertation, I explore the effects that groups of advisors have on foreign policy decision-making. We lack …
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Quantization of prior probabilities in Bayesian group decision-making
In Bayesian hypothesis testing, a decision is made based on a prior probability distribution over the hypotheses, an observation with a known conditional distribution given the true hypothesis, and an assignment of costs to different types of errors. In a setting with multiple agents and the …
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Computer assisted group decision making for education program development
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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The effects of authority on group decision-making performance
… of differing types of authority within decision-making groups. Assigned leader groups were representative of authority of position (Barnard, 1968). Emergent leader groups were representative of authority of leadership (Barnard). Authority type was not found to have a significant effect …
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Idea Generation in Group Decision-Making During School Shooting Simulations
Increasingly, many policy decisions are made by groups consisting of individuals with diverse educational backgrounds, experience and agendas. Such diversity within a group can lead to a rich tapestry of information on which to build an informed decision, but can also lead to communication …
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The Role of Expert Advice Formation Individual and Group Decision Making
This paper examined individual and group level layperson decision making when information from multiple experts is available. A total of 767 participants read four scenarios with various forms of expert advice, and then made decisions and gave confidence ratings. As expert advice format became more …
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The impact of individual expertise and public information on group decision-making.
… growing automatization, and interconnectivity of decision-makers worldwide, global problems with high complexity have to be dealt with by institutions, which not only struggle with financial shortages in doing so, but which also have to cope with changing mindsets, change management, and a lack of …
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Virtual teams combining mobile devices with web-based communication on group decision making
… asynchronous tools (including email, discussion groups, information sharing tools, and group calendaring systems), and synchronous tools, such as instant messaging and web-based chatting features, to coordinate and share information with people within and outside of organizations. This empirical …
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The Effects of Different Amounts of Feedback on Individual and Group Decision-Making
Recent theories of individual decision-making have emphasized the role of environmental feedback on decision performance and confidence. However, in relation to group decision-making, the notion of feedback has received only minor attention. This study compared individual and group decision …
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Group decision making in a prototype engineering system : the Federal Open Market Committee
All ES evolve as the result of stakeholder decisions and decision processes that affect their design and operation. These decision making problems often involve many stakeholders, each of whom have a say in the outcome. This has been termed a lateral alignment problem, as opposed to a unitary …
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The effectiveness of virtual facilitation in supporting GDSS appropriation and structured group decision making
… their introduction a quarter of a century ago, group decision support systems (GDSS) have evolved from applications designed primarily to support decision making for groups in face-to-face settings, to their growing use for “web conferencing,” online collaboration, and distributed group …
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A comparison of the small group decision-making techniques of majority vote and consensus.
… have long been concerned with the matter of decision-making within groups, but little attention has been paid to the actual process used in reaching decisions. This study proposed to fill this gap by examining the two processes of majority vote and consensus. Eighty subjects were divided into …
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Elicitation Mode Effects on Group Decision-Making in a Step-Level Public Good Social Dilemma
Research in group decision making has long been divided along the lines of categorical, e.g., a guilty versus not-guilty verdict as in a criminal trial, versus continuous decisions, e.g., a monetary budget allocation. The possibility that groups may share the same processes when making these two …
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