TY - JOUR
AU - CALLAHAN, CAROLYN M.
AB -  Volume S Number 2 S.oond Qua"" Fluency, Flexibility, and Originality aa a FunctIon of Group Size vestigated some of the psychological aspects of committee work using groups of three and six. He found that groups of three were more efficient in dealing with abstract problems while groups of six performed more efficiently with concrete problems. In a study dealing with the effects of group size and threat reduction on creativity in a problem solving situation, Gibb (1951) reported that as group size increased, all group members reported a feeling of threat or inhibition of their impulses to participate. Taylor and Faust (1952) found that four-person groups correctly solved more problems than two-person groups; the problems put to them, however, appeared to be more convergent than divergent in nature. In a study dealing with the effects of large and small group participation on decision making, Fox, Lorge, Weltz, and Herrold (1953) found that groups consisting of 12 to 13 Air Force officers wrote decisions that were of "superior quality" to those written by smaller groups of six to eight members. In a review of the literature on the effects of group size, Thomas and Fink (1963) found that under 
TI - Fluency, Flexibility, and Originality as a Function of Group Size
JF - The Journal of Creative Behavior
DO - 10.1002/j.2162-6057.1974.tb01117.x
DA - 1974-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/fluency-flexibility-and-originality-as-a-function-of-group-size-WHMYgIDA0U
SP - 107
VL - 8
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -