Making Group Brainstorming More Effective: Recommendations From an Associative Memory Perspective
- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Vol. 11 (6), 208-212
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8721.00202
Abstract
Much literature on group brainstorming has found it to be less effective than individual brainstorming. However, a cognitive perspective suggests that group brainstorming could be an effective technique for generating creative ideas. Computer simulations of an associative memory model of idea generation in groups suggest that groups have the potential to generate ideas that individuals brainstorming alone are less likely to generate. Exchanging ideas by means of writing or computers, alternating solitary and group brainstorming, and using heterogeneous groups appear to be useful approaches for enhancing group brainstorming.Keywords
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