In One Condition of an Experiment Conducted by Gerald Stasser

Multiple Choice

In one condition of an experiment conducted by Gerald Stasser (Stasser & Titus,1985) ,all group members had access to the same information,and in another condition,members had unique information that other group members didn't know.In the second (unshared information) condition,the group made a worse decision than in the first (shared information) condition.This occurred because groups

A) often engage in social loafing.
B) seldom can agree on who is most expert.
C) avoid differences of opinion, given conformity pressures.
D) often ignore dissenting opinions.
E) focus discussion on the information that all members know.