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Exploring the Cohesiveness Bonus in Brainstorming, Brainwriting, and Nominal Groups

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David Dryden Henningsen *
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Miller Henningsen, Mary Lynn
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Jessica Bozeman
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DeBeck, Dennis
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Chiasson, Rebekah
DOI:10.1080/1041794X.2026.2638815delete
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Brainstorming groups enjoy a cohesiveness bonus over nominal groups. Brainstorming group members report a greater desire to work with their group in the future. This finding is further explored in the current study. Mutual enhancement and symbolic convergence provide possible explanations. In a competitive test, brainstorming groups were compared to brainwriting and nominal groups in 54 three-person groups (i.e. 18 groups per condition). By considering brainwriting groups, we compared groups with idea sharing to fully interacting brainstorming groups and non-interacting nominal groups. We found that brainstorming groups produce higher levels of piggybacking, symbolic convergence, and cohesiveness compared to nominal or brainwriting groups, favoring a symbolic-convergence explanation of the cohesiveness bonus.
Keywords:
Brainstorming
brainwriting
cohesiveness
mutual enhancement
symbolic convergence theory

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Southern Communication Journal
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