Recall That in One Condition of the Experiment Conducted by Stasser

question 76

Multiple Choice

Recall that in one condition of the experiment conducted by Stasser and Titus (1985) about Student Senate president candidates, all group members had access to the same information, and that in another condition, members had unique information that other group members didn't know. In the second (unshared information) condition, the group made a worse decision than in the first (shared information) condition. This occurred because groups __________.

• A) focus discussion on the information that all members know
• B) often ignore dissenting opinions
• C) seldom can agree on who is most expert
• D) avoid differences of opinion, given conformity pressures

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