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Groups perform better than the best individuals on Letters-to-Numbers problems

Laughlin, Patrick R., Bonner, Bryan L., Miner, Andrew G.·2002·Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

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  • Group learning is superior to individual learning for relatively complex problem-solving tasks.

    “These findings are consistent with previous research on group versus individual learning which showed that group learning is superior to individual learning for relatively complex problem-solving tasks (Laughlin et al. 2002;Laughlin et al. 2006) and that individual learning is superior to group learning for relatively simple recall tasks (e.g., Andersson and Rönnberg 1995;Meudell et al. 1992;Weld”

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Authors
Laughlin, P. R., Bonner, B. L., & Miner, A. G.
Affiliations
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
Corresponding author
Laughlin, Patrick R.
Venue
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2002-07
Volume
88
Issue
2
Pages
605-620
ISSN
0749-5978 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2053408677
Cited by
218
References
39
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 19
FWCI
6.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Team Dynamics and Performance
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Keywords
group decision making, group versus individual performance, cooperative groups, random coding, insight, collective intelligence, problem solving, information processing strategies

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