Week 4 - Information in groups

Question 1

Jones & Lambertus, (2014) speak of 3 hindering factors in idea generating in groups

Answer 1

1) Production Blocking
2) Evaluation apprehension
3) Social Matching

Question 2

Production Blocking (Jones & Lambertus, 2014)

Answer 2

The longer the delay between reported ideas via electronic communication, the less related the ideas were to each other, resulting in fewer ideas produced overall.

Question 3

Evaluation apprehension (Jones & Lambertus, 2014)

Answer 3

When groupmembers fear negative appraisal from other members.

Question 4

Social Matching (Jones & Lambertus, 2014)

Answer 4

When group members begin to match another member’s decreased effort

Question 5

Satisficing (Jones & Lambertus, 2014)

Answer 5

People simplify problems by considering a limited set of alternatives and choosing an option that is good enough

Question 6

People have different expectations for groups and these expectations predict performance differences between groups and individuals (Jones & Lambertus, 2014) True or false?

Answer 6

True

Question 7

According to Steinel et al., How did Information sampling bias played a role in their research?

Answer 7

Organizations favor teams with heterogeneous members, hoping knowledge from the different domains and experiences will be pooled and leads to better solutions. Groups mainly discuss the information already known

Question 8

Name 2 characteristics for information sharing from the research Steinel et al., (2010)

Answer 8

Sharedness
Importance

Question 9

What is the following concept called?: Unshared information can be distributed in such a way that the best decision alternative is hidden from the members prior to discussion and can only be found if unshared information is exchanged. (Steinel et al., 2010)

Answer 9

Hidden profile

Question 10

Which factor influences strategic information sharing according to the research of Steinel et al., 2010?

Answer 10

Social motivation

Question 11

According to Steinel et al., (2010) What do selfish individuals typically do with information they possess?

Answer 11

1) Withhold unshared information
2) Pool mainly unimportant information
3) ‘‘one step further” and
deliberately distort information

Question 12

What is the term for the tendency of people to actively seek information that supports their preexisting beliefs and avoid information that contradicts them? (Faulmuller et al., 2012)

Answer 12

Confirmation bias

Question 13

How do people typically evaluate information when it comes to their own beliefs, considering information that challenges their views? (Faulmuller et al., 2012)

Answer 13

People tend to judge disconfirming information as of lower quality than confirming information.

Question 14

What is the inherent confounding in a hidden profile when it comes to shared information and preference consistency? (Faulmuller et al., 2012)

Answer 14

In a hidden profile, sharedness and preference consistency of information are inherently confounded, meaning that most or all of the shared pieces of information support the group members’ preferred decision alternative.

Question 15

Name 2 social motivations that Faulmuller et al., 2012 names in their research

Answer 15

Motivation to be understood
Motivation to convice others

Question 16

In the study, what did participants demonstrate when their discussion partner claimed not to understand why they had a specific decision preference? (Faulmuller et al., 2012)

Answer 16

Participants showed significantly stronger preference-consistent information sharing when their discussion partner claimed not to understand why they held their particular decision preference, as compared with participants who were allegedly understood by their partner.