Why Do Studies That Measure Social Cohesion Show a Smaller

question 15

Multiple Choice

Why do studies that measure social cohesion show a smaller cohesion-performance link than those studies that measure task cohesion?

• A) Friendship and liking one another are probably not as important to performance as working toward the same goal
• B) Social cohesion studies tend to be biased
• C) The direction of causality is not established
• D) It is much more difficult to get accurate measures of social cohesion than accurate measures of task cohesion

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