Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

For drawing higher-level perspectives in group activi-ties, resolving conflicts among group members is cru-cial. We investigated group activities with four memberswherein one member had a different perspective fromthe other three. Four members engaged in a rule discov-ery task in which they were required to unify conflictsfor the solution. Through two experiments, we investi-gated two hypotheses: 1) Innovative high-level perspec-tives are more likely to emerge from a minority individ-ual than from the majority of group members, 2) Groupmembers on the majority side might tend to have moreegocentric perspectives than an individual on the minor-ity side. Both hypotheses were supported.