A detailed report of subjects' behavior in two six-man communication network experiments is given. These are perhaps the first six-man experiments in the Bavelas-type communication networks to be reported. Main features of subject performance lead one to question the idea of "optimal...

A report of a computer simulation of human behavior in Bavelas-type communication network experiments. The simulation successfully imitates behavior in the five-man chain network, and does reasonably well for a six-man Y net, but fails on a more complex six-man net. Main features of the...