e Declaration of Independence is an announcement to the world that the United States of America wasa new, separate from the British Empire. Up until this point, the 13 original states had merely been colonies controlled by Great Britain. The was written and adopted in 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The date that it was signed and

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.