{"pk":26108,"title":"Unifying Conflicting Perspectives in Group Activities:Roles of Minority Individuals","subtitle":null,"abstract":"For drawing higher-level perspectives in group activi-ties, resolving conflicts among group members is cru-cial. We investigated group activities with four memberswherein one member had a different perspective fromthe other three. Four members engaged in a rule discov-ery task in which they were required to unify conflictsfor the solution. Through two experiments, we investi-gated two hypotheses: 1) Innovative high-level perspec-tives are more likely to emerge from a minority individ-ual than from the majority of group members, 2) Groupmembers on the majority side might tend to have moreegocentric perspectives than an individual on the minor-ity side. Both hypotheses were supported.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Emergence"},{"word":"Minority"},{"word":"Majority"},{"word":"Group problemsolving."}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1sz963d1","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kazuhisa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Miwa","name_suffix":"","institution":"Nagoya University","department":""},{"first_name":"Yugo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hayashi","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ritsumeikan University","department":""},{"first_name":"Hitoshi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Terai","name_suffix":"","institution":"kinki University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26108/galley/15744/download/"}]}