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Getting Out of Embed: The Role of Social Context in Decision Making

Decision making is an inherently social exercise. Here, Michael Mauboussin details three shocking psychological studies that reveal just how another's action or opinion can profoundly change your own.

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Subject(s): Organizational Behavior

Source(s): ChangeThis

Author(s): Michael Mauboussin

Posted: 2007-01-02

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