The experts who testified at this trial believed the school board failed to provide adequate training for school personnel. without training, school personnel will most likely underestimate the lethality of suicidal thoughts, statements, and attempts. the conclusion of this expert testimony was that the student would not have committed suicide if the employees had been adequately trained. persuaded by this input, the court held that the school could be found negligent for failing to notify the decedent's mother. this explains the court decision in which court case?

Recall that in one condition of the experiment conducted by stasser and titus (1985) about student council president candidates, all group members had access to the same information, and that in another condition, members had unique information that other group members didn't know. in the second (unshared information) condition, the group made a worse decision than in the first (shared information) condition. this occurred because groups seldom can agree on who is most expert. focus discussion on the information that all members know. often ignore dissenting opinions. avoid differences of opinion, given conformity pressures.