How the Group Affects the Mind: A Cognitive Model of Idea Generation in Groups

By B. Nijstad, Wolfgang Stroebe. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Team Reflexivity as an Antidote to Team Information-Processing Failures (2014, background): “…systems focus scholarly attention on the centrality of activities such as sharing, analyzing, storing and using information in carrying out team work (De Dreu, Nijstad, & van Knippenberg, 2008; Hinsz, Tindale, & Vollrath, 1997; Nijstad & Stroebe, 2006; Salas, Rozell, Mullen, & Driskell, 1999).”
Social influence, creativity and innovation (2008, neutral): “Cognitive models of group brainstorming (Brown & Paulus, 2002; Nijstad & Stroebe, 2006) have suggested conditions under which group brainstorming can be an effective source of creative ideas.”
Behavioral Activation Links to Creativity Because of Increased Cognitive Flexibility (2011, background): “Persistence manifests itself in the generation of many ideas within a few categories (i.e., within-category fluency; e.g., Nijstad & Stroebe, 2006) or in longer time on task (De Dreu et al., 2008).”
Effects of team knowledge management on the creativity and financial performance of organizational teams (2012, background): “…the initial interest in team creativity originated from the brainstorming paradigm (Osborn, 1957), researchers have often compared and contrasted idea-generation processes involving groups and individuals primarily in laboratory settings (e.g., Nijstad & Stroebe, 2006; Paulus & Dzindolet, 1993).”
Enhancement of Creative Thinking Skills Using a Cognitive-Based Creativity Training (2017, background): “Moreover, during an individual brainstorming session, the creative thought process is not influenced by group processes (e.g., fear of criticism), idea loss due to turn-taking, and the dominance of certain group members (Nijstad and Stroebe 2006).”
The dual pathway to creativity model: Creative ideation as a function of flexibility and persistence (2010, background): “…processes involve memory retrieval (i.e., ideas cannot be generated ex nihilo but build on existing knowledge) also underlies models of creative ideation, such as the matrix model (Brown, Tumeo, Larey, & Paulus, 1998) and Search for Ideas in Associative Memory (SIAM; Nijstad & Stroebe, 2006).”
Crowdsourcing New Product Ideas over Time: An Analysis of the Dell IdeaStorm Community (2013, neutral): “These general results have been found in ofﬂine and online settings (Nijstad and Stroebe 2006).”
Power, stability of power, and creativity (2011, methodology): “Finally, originality was coded by two independent raters on a 5-point scale (1= not original, 5= highly original; see Rietzschel, Nijstad & Stroebe, 2006).”
Student perceptions of assessment feedback: a critical scoping review and call for research (2020, background): “…some claim focus group may elicit richer responses due to different perspectives and prior knowledge of participants (Brown & Harris, 2018), others have argued the opposite claiming higher cognitive load and potential production blocking and other cognitive biases (e.g. Nijstad & Stroebe, 2006).”
How are we creative together? Comparing sociocognitive and sociocultural answers (2011, background): “Based on the parallels between free recall and idea generation (Nijstad and Stroebe, 2006), the Search for Ideas in Associative Memory Model (SIAM) is one of the most promising cognitive models of group creativity.”