{"id":81,"date":"2007-02-26T06:54:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T06:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/uncategorized\/meetings-make-us-dumber-study-shows"},"modified":"2007-02-26T06:54:32","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T06:54:32","slug":"meetings-make-us-dumber-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/psychology\/meetings-make-us-dumber-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Meetings make us dumber, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People have a harder time coming up with alternative solutions to a problem when they are part of a group, new research suggests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>Scientists exposed study participants to one brand of soft drink then asked them to think of alternative brands. Alone, they came up with significantly more products than when they were grouped with two others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\">See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/17279961\/\">full article<\/a> on MSNBC.<br \/>\n<span id=\"byLine\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have a harder time coming up with alternative solutions to a problem when they are part of a group, new research suggests. Scientists exposed study participants to one brand of soft drink then asked them to think of alternative brands. Alone, they came up with significantly more products than when they were grouped with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/psychology\/meetings-make-us-dumber-study-shows\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meetings make us dumber, study shows<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}