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process gain and loss  

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  • Process gain and loss are labels covering a long research tradition in social psychology that examines how and to what degree group processes affect group performance, with the earliest work occurring over 100 years ago. Sometimes, group processes can lead to performance that exceeds expectation, referred to as process gains. [Source: Encyclopedia of Group Processes & Intergroup Relations; Process Gain and Loss]

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