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Download full textGouran, Dennis S. – 1982
To provide a theoretical base for investigating the influence of inferential error on group decision making, current literature on both inferential error and decision making is reviewed and applied to the Watergate incident. Although groups tend to make fewer inferential errors because members' inferences are generally not biased in the same…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making
