Bernard Personnaz

The liberating role of conflict in group creativity: A cross cultural study

April 1, 2003 • Working Papers • By Bernard Personnaz, Charlan Jeanne Nemeth, Jack A. Goncalo and Marie Personnaz

Abstract Researchers of group creativity have noted problems such as social loafing, “production blocking,” and especially, evaluation apprehension (Paulus, 2000). Thus, brainstorming techniques have specifically admonished people “not to criticize”…