ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the effect of judgment model overlap on disagreement within decision-making groups. Judgment models were assessed for seventeen small groups using procedures drawn from social judgment theory (SJT)-based research. Research into decision making in a small group setting has a history of looking to individual processes in decision making for insight and prescriptive advice. The chapter explores the nature of the input-process link, without necessarily generating a more comprehensive input-process-output model. Assessing the judgment models of individuals also may help with a knotty methodological problem in group decision-making research. The research on judgment model adaptation and cognitive conflict leads to some speculation about how differences in judgment models may affect communication. B. Brehmer's work in group conflict is based in SJT which is built around the concept of judgment models. Brehmer is primarily interested in how judgment models are affected by interaction.
