This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape outcomes in group decision-making scenarios …. Groups play a repeated coordination game in which they can agree on a payoff-dominant or a payoff-dominated but ideologically … preferred outcome, or disagree and forego all payoffs. We find that groups which disagree initially are more likely to end up …

We present a creative approach to improve the effectiveness of decision-making groups in solving nonroutine problems by … decision-making groups can better solve nonroutine problems. This paper also demonstrates how simple environmental … abnormalities can increase distrust and trust in computer-based decision-making groups. Various trust- and distrust-related measures …