When mary asks her mom to take her to the shopping mall, her mom usually takes her. whenever mary asks her dad to take her to the mall he refuses. as a result, mary only asks her mom to take her to the mall. the process that has resulted in mary only asking her mom to take her to the mall is called: ?

Recall that in one condition of the experiment conducted by stasser and titus (1985) about student council president candidates, all group members had access to the same information, and that 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 seldom can agree on who is most expert. focus discussion on the information that all members know. often ignore dissenting opinions. avoid differences of opinion, given conformity pressures.