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Cover 2 - Editorial Board/Barcode   

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  Call for Papers

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Special issue on Social norms and cultural dynamics   

Pages 1-3

  Regular Articles

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Effects of team knowledge management on the creativity and financial performance of organizational teams   Original Research Article

Pages 4-13
Sun Young Sung, Jin Nam Choi

Highlights

► We examine the effects of knowledge management on team creativity and performance. ► Team knowledge utilization was positively related to team creativity. ► The systematic cognitive style of leaders was positively related to team creativity. ► Team creativity increased financial performance of the team.

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Follow the crowd in a new direction: When conformity pressure facilitates group creativity (and when it does not)   Original Research Article

Pages 14-23
Jack A. Goncalo, Michelle M. Duguid

Highlights

► Conformity pressure can stimulate group creativity under certain conditions. ► Only if the norm is to be individualistic as opposed to collectivistic. ► Only if the group is composed of relatively uncreative people. ► Conformity pressure stifles highly creative people regardless of norm content.

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Why groups perform better than individuals at quantitative judgment tasks: Group-to-individual transfer as an alternative to differential weighting   Original Research Article

Pages 24-36
Thomas Schultze, Andreas Mojzisch, Stefan Schulz-Hardt

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► We present first evidence for G–I transfer in group judgment. ► We find no evidence for differential weighting based on expertise or accuracy. ► G–I transfer offers an alternative explanation for the superior accuracy of groups. ► When G–I transfer is controlled, groups performed at the level of their average member.

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The moderating role of decision task goals in attribute weight convergence   Original Research Article

Pages 37-45
Kwanho Suk, Song-Oh Yoon

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► Prior research showed low convergences among methods for measuring attribute weights. ► One determinant of convergence is the common processing goals of the tasks. ► Results showed convergences improve among measures with the same processing goals. ► The results have managerial implications when selecting weight measurement types.

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In the eyes of the beholder? The role of dispositional trust in judgments of procedural and interactional fairness   Original Research Article

Pages 46-59
Emily C. Bianchi, Joel Brockner

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► Dispositional characteristics can influence perceptions of fairness. ► Across three studies, more trusting people had more positive fairness perceptions. ► Fairness perceptions mediated the relationship between trust and work attitudes.

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Blind in one eye: How psychological ownership of ideas affects the types of suggestions people adopt   Original Research Article

Pages 60-71
Markus Baer, Graham Brown

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► We examine change adoption as a function of psychological ownership and change type. ► Ownership propels people to embrace change that adds to their possessions. ► Change that shrinks people's possessions are shunned by those with ownership. ► Effects can be explained by sense of personal loss and negative affect people feel.

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The perceived functions of linguistic risk quantifiers and their effect on risk, negativity perception and decision making   Original Research Article

Pages 72-81
Marie Juanchich, Miroslav Sirota, Christina Lea Butler

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► Probability terms interpreted as likelihood-communication or face-management device. ► Face-management directed toward the hearer but also toward the speaker. ► Interpretations determined hearers' risk and severity perceptions and decision making.

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An examination of the proportional difference model to describe and predict health decisions   Original Research Article

Pages 82-97
Claudia González-Vallejo, Jason L. Harman, Etienne Mullet, Maria T. Muñoz Sastre

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► The proportional difference (PD) model of the SDM theory was tested in health domains. ► The domains deal with decisions under risk and certainty. ► PD was compared to logically derived alternative utility models and to the Priority Heuristics. ► PD's single trade-off process performed well in multiple model tests.