Investigating illusions of agreement in group requirements determination

Browne, Glenn J.; Appan, Radha; Safi, Roozmehr; Mellarkod, Vidhya

doi:10.1016/j.im.2018.05.013

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“…Featured among Janis's list of groupthink symptoms was the illusion of unanimity: The mistaken belief that everyone other than oneself agrees with the (bad) decision being made. Even when the collective private opinion concerning a group's pending decision is that is misguided, Janis contended, the group may nevertheless embrace it if its members believe that their misgivings are not shared by others (see also Harvey, 1974Harvey, , 1988Browne et al, 2018). A second sighting of pluralistic ignorance was in Latané and Darley's (1970) account of the bystander effect.…”

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A century of pluralistic ignorance: what we have learned about its origins, forms, and consequences

Miller

2023

Front. Soc. Psychol.

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The concept of pluralistic ignorance was introduced a century ago by social psychologist, Floyd Allport. It has been broadly applied in the social sciences, including psychology, sociology, political science, and economics. Pluralistic ignorance is a situation in which group members systematically misestimate their peers' attitudes, feelings, and private behaviors. This paper reviews the range of phenomena that pluralistic ignorance has been invoked to explain, the different accounts that have been offered for its emergence, and the various techniques that have been employed to dispel it. It distinguishes between micro and macro variants of pluralistic ignorance and discusses the challenges involved in generating a theory that encompasses both variants.

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A century of pluralistic ignorance: what we have learned about its origins, forms, and consequences

Miller

2023

Front. Soc. Psychol.

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“…Furthermore, we discovered that the team behavior of requirements engineers influences two areas: i) RE process and ii) team performance and success. For the RE process, five studies [6], [16], [47]- [49] reported the impact of team behavior of requirements engineers on the RE process. For instance, Browne et al [47] investigated a type of illusion in requirements determination called the Abilene paradox, which was found to significantly affect requirements elicitation and determination based on team agreement.…”

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“…For the RE process, five studies [6], [16], [47]- [49] reported the impact of team behavior of requirements engineers on the RE process. For instance, Browne et al [47] investigated a type of illusion in requirements determination called the Abilene paradox, which was found to significantly affect requirements elicitation and determination based on team agreement. Human social factors such as flexibility, collective knowledge, and transactive memory are essential elements in RE collaborative teamwork [6].…”

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Towards understanding the influence of personality and team behaviors on requirements engineering activities

Salleh

Ya’u

Nordin

2023

IJECE

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<span lang="EN-US">Requirements engineers play an important role in the development of software products and services. The nature of requirements engineering (RE) is multifaceted and influences the quality, success, or failure of software products. In gathering software requirements, engineers commonly work in a team, particularly when dealing with the customers or modeling the requirements, hence the team behavior may influence the RE activities. The investigation of requirements engineers’ personality and their team behavior associated with RE activities is still an open area in which research is still developing. This study aims to investigate the personality and team behavior of requirements engineers involved in RE activities using a systematic literature review approach. We included 64 primary studies that addressed the association between personality and team behavior of requirements engineers on the effectiveness of RE activities. The result shows that among personality dimensions, extraversion and conscientiousness were found to be the predominant personality traits that positively affect RE activities. Furthermore, team behavior of requirements engineers such as flexibility, collaboration, creativity, innovation, and norms were discovered as factors that influence the RE process, performance, and success. The findings of this study contribute to the body of knowledge and practice of RE by providing empirical evidence on the influence of requirements engineers’ personality and team behavior on the effectiveness of RE activities.</span>

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