Campus Contact Information Departmental Area(s): Social/Personality Interests: Social: influence processes; decision making and creativity in small groups; managing innovation in organizations; psychology of creative scientists, artists and entrepreneurs

Selected Publications
Nemeth, C. (1981). Jury trials: Psychology and the law. In L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 14, pp. 309-367). New York: Academic Press

Nemeth, C. J. (1986). The differential contributions of majority and minority influence. Psychological Review, 93, 23-32. Reprinted in M.Hogg (ed) Sage Benchmarks in Psychology: Social Psychology. 2002.

Nemeth, C. J., & Staw, B. M. (1989). The tradeoffs of social control and innovation within groups and organizations. In L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 22, pp. 175-210). New York: Academic Press.

Nemeth, C. (1995). Dissent as driving cognition, attitudes and judgments. Social Cognition, 13, 273-291.

Nemeth, C. (1997). Managing Innovation: When Less is More. California Management Review, 40, 59-74.

Nemeth, C.J., & Nemeth, L. (2001). Understanding the creative process: Management of the knowledge worker. In J. Nonaka and D. J. Teece (Eds.), Managing industrial knowledge. London: Sage Publications, pp. 91-104.

Nemeth, C., Rogers, J., & Brown, K. (2001). "Devil's advocate vs. authentic dissent: Stimulating quantity and quality." European Journal of Social Psychology, 31,707-720.

Nemeth, C. J. (2002). The Art of Mentoring: It's Personal. In F. Buschini and E. Lage (Eds.), Penser la Vie, le Social, la Nature: Me'langes en l'honneur de Serge Moscovici. Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 331-343.

Nemeth, C.J. (2002) Minority dissent and its "hidden" benefits. New Review of Social Psychology, 2, 21-28.

Nemeth, C.J. (2003). Minority Influence. In M. Cardwell, L. Clark and C. Meddrum (Eds.), Psychology for A.S. London: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd.

Nemeth, C.J. and Nemeth-Brown, B.(2003) Better than Individuals? The potential benefits of dissent and diversity for group creativity (2001). In P. Paulus and B. Nijstad (eds) Group Creativity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Nemeth, C., Personnaz, M., Personnaz, B. and Goncalo, J. (2004) The Liberating Role of Conflict in Group Creativity: A cross-cultural study. Submitted to European Journal of Social Psychology. 34, 365-374

Nemeth, C.J. and Goncalo, J.A. (2005) Creative collaborations from afar: The benefits of independent authors. Creativity Research Journal, 17,1-8.

Nemeth, C.J. and Goncalo, J.A. (2005) Influence and persuasion in small groups. In T.C. Brock and M.C. Green (Eds.), Persuasion: Psychological Insights and Perspectives. London: Sage Publications, pp. 171-194.

Nemeth, C.J. and Ormiston, M. (2007) Creative Idea Generation: Harmony versus Stimulation. European Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 37, 524-535.

Publications in Preparation:

Nemeth, C.(2007) Those Noble Laureates. A book on the creative process over time based on 12-hour interviews with each of 5 Nobel Laureates in Physics and Chemistry.

Nemeth, C. and Feinberg, M. (2007) Rethinking the brainstorming instructions: the value of breaking social norms. To be submitted.