Devil's advocate versus authentic dissent: stimulating quantity and quality

By C. Nemeth, Keith S. Brown, J. Rogers. 2001

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The liberating role of conflict in group creativity: A study in two countries (2004, background): “The latter appears to occur especially when these differing viewpoints are authentically held ( Nemeth, Brown, & Rogers, 2001 ).”
Agreement and Disagreement in Group Deliberation: Effects on Deliberation Satisfaction, Future Engagement, and Decision Legitimacy (2009, background): “At the same time, however, the research suggests that conflict produces a higher quality decision in groups (Nemeth et al., 2001; Schweiger, Sandberg, & James, 1986).”
Resistance to Change: The Rest of the Story (2008, background): “What it does mean, however, is that none of these actions/reactions are, in and of themselves, resistance, and they do not become resistance unless and until change agents assign the label resistance to them as part of their sensemaking.”
Attitudes and persuasion. (2006, unknown): “Authentic minority dissent proved more efficient than simulated ( " devil's advocate " ) minority dissent in generating superior thought processes (Nemeth et al. 2001).”