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August 26, 2015     Racially Diverse Teams May Get Along Better than You Think People tend to make biased judgments of how well members of racially diverse teams are getting along, according to experiments led by Robert B. Lount, Jr., of The Ohio State University. Research participants who read a transcript of a team discussion rated the group's level of relationship conflict at 4.64 on a 1-to-7 scale, on average, if the team was described as racially diverse, but 4.11 if it was said to be homogeneous, reflecting people's expectations of greater interpersonal friction among people of different races. Moreover, the participants were less willing to comply with the team's request for greater resources if it was described as racially diverse. SOURCE: Biased Perceptions of Racially Diverse Teams and Their Consequences for Resource Support

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