A foundation for the study of group decision support systems
Management Science
“A study of influence in computer-mediated group decision making"
Management Information Systems Quarterly
Attribution accuracy when using anonymity in group support systems
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: group support systems
Anonymous mechanisms in group decision support systems communication
Decision Support Systems
A comprehensive model of anonymity in computer-supported group decision making
ICIS '97 Proceedings of the eighteenth international conference on Information systems
Group Support Systems: New Perspectives
Group Support Systems: New Perspectives
A field experiment on GSS anonymity and group member status
HICSS '95 Proceedings of the 28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Information technology and its organizational impact
Lessons from a dozen years of group support systems research: a discussion of lab and field findings
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Information technology and its organizational impact
Invoking social comparison to improve electronic brainstorming: beyond anonymity
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Information technology and its organizational impact
Group Support Systems: A Descriptive Evaluation of Case and Field Studies
Journal of Management Information Systems
Investigating the Moderators of the Group Support Systems Use with Meta-Analysis
Journal of Management Information Systems
The effectiveness of groups recognizing patterns
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
The use of group support systems in focus groups: Information technology meets qualitative research
Computers in Human Behavior
Media naturalness and compensatory encoding: The burden of electronic media obstacles is on senders
Decision Support Systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Cross-cultural deception in social networking sites and face-to-face communication
Computers in Human Behavior
Stylometric Identification in Electronic Markets: Scalability and Robustness
Journal of Management Information Systems
Computers in Human Behavior
Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities
Organization Science
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This study examines whether technically "anonymous" comments entered by participants during group support system (GSS) brainstorming sessions are, in fact, unidentifiable. Hypotheses are developed and tested about the influences of comment length, comment evaluative tone, duration of group membership, and prior communication among group members on the accuracy of attributions they made about the identity of the authors of these technically anonymous comments. Data on prior communication and group history about each of the 32 small groups was collected before participants began using a GSS for brainstorming. Immediately after the session, each member was asked to attribute authorship to a sample of the session's anonymous comments (comment authorship was known to the researchers). The study's participants made attributions that were significantly more accurate than chance guessing. Factors that had a positive influence on attribution accuracy include evaluative tone of comments (especially humorous comments) and amount of prior communication received from other group members. Vividness of comment tone and comment length was not significantly correlated with attribution accuracy. Although the attributions of anonymous comments were more accurate than expected by chance, most of the attributions were incorrect. Implications and consequences of both accurate and inaccurate attribution are discussed along with suggestions for future research.