Production blocking and idea generation: Does blocking interfere with cognitive processes?
Production blocking (group members must take turns expressing their ideas) is an important cause of productivity loss in brainstorming groups. However, it is not yet clear why production blocking has this detrimental effect. We hypothesized that delays between the generation and articulation of idea...
| Published in: | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Vol. 39; no. 6; pp. 531 - 549 |
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Academic Press Inc.
November 2003
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