The debate on the benefits of trust or distrust in groups has generated a substantial amount of research that points to the positive aspects of trust in groups, and generally characterizes distrust as a negative group phenomenon. Therefore, many researchers and practitioners assume that trust is...

Majority influence is the attempt by a majority of group members to impose their common position on group dissenters during group decision making. Because of globalization, the use of cross-cultural teams in group tasks is becoming increasingly common. The objective of this study was to...

We present a creative approach to improve the effectiveness of decision-making groups in solving nonroutine problems by introducing increased distrust into the group. Our theory is proposed through an extension and empirical test of Schul et al.’s [1] distrust model in an online group...

Usability flaws found in the later stages of the development process can be extremely costly to resolve. Accordingly, usability evaluation (UE) is an important, albeit expensive, part of software development. We report on how the inexpensive usability evaluation method of heuristic evaluation...