Effect of Group Heterogeneity on Quality of Task Solutions
- 1 February 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 50 (1) , 171-174
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1982.50.1.171
Abstract
Subjects were placed into groups on the basis of either trait homogeneity or heterogeneity with the other group members and were given a group task to complete. The results indicated group answers of superior quality when the group was composed of heterogeneous individuals rather than homogeneous individuals.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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