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A comparison of normative and interactional explanations of group decision‐making: Social decision schemes versus valence distributions

Marshall Scott Poole Assistant professor of speech communication, University of Illinois, ; Visiting assistant professor of communication, University of Michigan,
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Robert D. McPhee Assistant professor of speech communication, University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign
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David R. Seibold Associate professor of speech communication, University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign
Pages 1-19 | Published online: 02 Jun 2009

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