You notice that over the past month, many students on campus have started wearing a new style of school sweatshirt. you think to yourself that perhaps the bookstore has recently started selling this new sweatshirt style. this prediction is an example of you notice that over the past month, many students on campus have started wearing a new style of school sweatshirt. you think to yourself that perhaps the bookstore has recently started selling this new sweatshirt style. this prediction is an example of an experimental question. a type of observation. a hypothesis. an experiment.

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.