Publications

Publication details [#52000]

Pavitt, Charles and Lindsey Aloia. 2009. Factors Affecting the Relative Proportion of Reason and Preference Statements During Problem-Solving Group Discussion. Communication Research Reports 26 (4) : 259–270.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

group interaction | preference organization | problem solving | reasoning

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study assesses the impact of several factors -(dis)agreement, judgmental and intellective task types and pre-discussion preference formation-, assumed to affect the relative proportion of preference and reason statements during problem-solving group discussion.