One common everyday object, Post-It Notes, is the product of a bootleg project at 3M, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing. The company allowed researchers to spend 15% of their time on their own ideas. Dr. Silver was and took the time away from his assigned work to develop the idea. a. empoweredb. under-employedc. sidelined

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.