Information, Influence and Technology in Group Decision-Making

Past research concerning 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 familiar and that often focuses on members' prediscussion preferences. This thesis examined the effects of three factors on the sharing of uniquely held information during group decision making: the degree of information processing required by the group decision task, the medium by which group members were communicating, and the access that group members had to information during the group discussion.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Hollingshead, Andrea Beth

Contributors dc:contributor

• McGrath, Joseph E.

• Psychology, Social
• Speech Communication

Identifier

(UMI)AAI9329059

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/72124