The "Call for Programs" for the 1993 APA annual convention appears in the October issue of the APA Monitor. The 1993 convention will be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from August 20 through August 24. Deadline for submission of program and presentation proposals is December 10,1992. Additional copies of the "Call" are available from the APA Convention Office, effective in October. As a reminder, agreement to participate in the APA convention is now presumed to convey permission for the presentation to be audiotaped if selected for taping. Any speaker or participant who does not wish his or her presentation to be audiotaped must notify the person submitting the program either at the time the invitation is extended or prior to the December 10 deadline for proposal submission.

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The current study investigates the effects of physical distribution of team members and accountability of individual outputs on brainstorming performance. Teams were asked to generate as many uses for a knife as they could in a 12 min period. Participants included 103 undergraduate students enrolled in psychology courses. A 2 (distributed vs. face-to-face) x 2 (accountable vs. non-accountable) analysis of variance revealed a significant main effect of accountability and a significant interaction. Individuals in face-to-face accountable teams generated the fewest ideas. These results are interpreted in terms of “evaluation apprehension” and “social loafing.”

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