Whether groups value agreement or dissent depends on the strength of consensus

James C. Mellody

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0334850

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Whether groups value agreement or dissent depends on the strength of consensus

James C. Mellody

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: jamesmellody@princeton.edu

Affiliation Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5827-9652

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Whether groups value agreement or dissent depends on the strength of consensus

James C. Mellody

Published: December 4, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0334850

About the Authors

James C. Mellody

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: jamesmellody@princeton.edu

Affiliation Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5827-9652

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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