diversity can benefit information elaboration (dbie)

📖 Definitions

"demographic diversity can improve performance by enhancing information elaboration (IE), the process through which information and perspectives distributed among the group are elicited and assessed" (Steel et al. 2021, 1288).

💡 Examples

• "Two DBIE hypotheses. a Demographic diversity causes group members to expect cognitive diversity,which changes behaviors in ways that enhance IE. b Demographic diversity decreases the tendency for epistemic conformity with other group members, which also improves IE" (Steel et al. 2021, 1295).

🔗 Relations

• part of: epistemic diversity

📚 References

• Steel, D., Fazelpour, S., Crewe, B. Gillette, K. 2021. "Information Elaboration and Epistemic Effects of Diversity." Synthese 198: 1287–1307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02108-w

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