The current study draws on motivated information processing in groups theory to propose that leadership functions and composition characteristics provide teams with the epistemic and social motivation needed for collective information processing and strategy adaptation. Three-person teams performed a city management decision-making simulation (N=74 teams; 222 individuals). Teams first managed a...

this article deals with human development as a biosociopsychological phenomena with an emphasis on the theoretical outlooks of outstanding phenomenologists such as freud, erikson and piagent. first, life cycles, and then the interaction of human sensory systems with the external stimuli, and the information processing system involved are discussed, with a special emphasis on the relation betwee...

This research explores an aspect of developers’ cognitive structure based on the theory of cognitive complexity. Underlying structure for information processing is the central topic of a variety of theories known collectively as complexity theories. These theories address the structural dimensions that underlie the flow, processing, and use of information within individual, team or organization...