Tamara is a group leader and recently she made a suggestion to her group members. while they did not all fully support the idea, they wanted to avoid conflict with tamara, so there was very little disagreement in the brief discussion. thus, she was sure that the group was all in a:

What is the term for the right to vote in elections?

Recall this unit’s essential question: what are the benefits and risks of interdependence? provide examples as evidence from your studies to explain two benefits and two risks of interdependence.

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.