Group-to-Individual Problem-Solving Transfer

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

Many scientific, educational, business, military, and political groups assume that people who solve problems in groups and teams will solve subsequent problems better as individuals than people without previous group problem-solving experience. In order to assess such group-to-individual transfer, sets of three people solved four letters-to-numbers decoding problems as groups (G) or individuals (I) in five conditions: GGGG, GGGI, GGII, GIII, or IIII. Results supported four hypotheses: (a) groups performed better than individuals, (b) positive group-to-individual transfer occurred, (c) one group experience was sufficient for transfer, (d) transfer was at the level of group performance (complete) on problems 2 and 3 but incomplete on problem 4, due to exceptional performance in the GGGG condition.

Object Details

• Extent: Seite(n): 319-330
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 11(3)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: group-to-individual transfer; letters-to-numbers problems;

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Laughlin, Patrick R. ; Carey, Harold R. ; Kerr, Norbert L.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (when): 2008

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430208090645
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-228647
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST