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SUBMITTER: Votruba AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4374688 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Votruba Ashley M AM Kwan Virginia S Y VS
PloS one 20150326 3
While expert groups often make recommendations on a range of non-controversial as well as controversial issues, little is known about how the level of expert consensus-the level of expert agreement-influences perceptions of the recommendations. This research illustrates that for non-controversial issues expert groups that exhibit high levels of agreement are more persuasive than expert groups that exhibit low levels of agreement. This effect is mediated by the perceived entitativity-the perceive ...[more]