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Publications by Steven J. Kass (bibliography)

1995

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Kass, Steven J., Inzana, Carolyn M. and Willis, Ruth P. (1995): The Effects of Team Member Distribution and Accountability on a Brainstorming Task. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 39th Annual Meeting 1995. pp. 882-886.

“The current study investigates the effects of physical distribution of team members and accountability of individual outputs on brainstorming performance. Teams were asked to generate as many uses for a knife as they could in a 12 min period. Participants included 103 undergraduate students enrolled in psychology courses. A 2 (distributed vs. face-to-face) x 2 (accountable vs. non-accountable) analysis of variance revealed a significant main effect of accountability and a significant interaction. Individuals in face-to-face accountable teams generated the fewest ideas. These results are interpreted in terms of "evaluation apprehension" and "social loafing."”

1990

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Kass, Steven J., Herschler, Daniel A. and Companion, Michael A. (1990): Are They Shooting at Me?: An Approach to Training Situational Awareness. In: D., Woods, and E., Roth, (eds.) Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 34th Annual Meeting 1990, Santa Monica, USA. pp. 1352-1356.

“This study tests the effectiveness of a training strategy to improve situational awareness skills. The training approach suggested by this study is to expose subjects initially to only those cues relevant to the task. When other extraneous cues are added, these subjects should be better at extracting those familiar cues relevant to the task than subjects who are first exposed to both relevant and irrelevant cues. Subjects trained with only the relevant”

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