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Association for Psychological Science
2 heads are not always better than 1
March 20th, 2012
From the corporate boardroom to the kitchen table, important decisions are often made in collaboration. But are two-or three or five-heads better than one' Not always, according to new research from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. "People who make judgments by working with someone else are more confident in those judgments. As a result they take less input from other people"-and this myopia wipes out any advantage a pair may have over an individual, says psychologist Julia A. Minson, who conducted the study with Jennifer S. Mueller. "The collaborative process itself is the problem." The findings appear in the journal Psychological Science, published by the Association for...
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