Hybrid brainstorming is ecologically more valid than all-interactive or all-noninteractive brainstorming, yet understudied. Although ideational benefits of hybrid groups have been found, studies have rarely focused on its affective/motivational contributions or ability to select ideas. In a randomized experiment, noninteractive-then-interactive (hybrid) groups perceived (1) higher goal clarity, engagement, and task attractiveness, and (2) chose more quality ideas than all-noninteractive groups. Additionally, (3) given the instruction for both hybrid and all-noninteractive conditions to be critical in idea selection, participants individually selected ideas that were more useful, thus overall higher quality, than the nonselected.

混合头脑风暴在生态上比全交互式或全非交互式头脑风暴更有效，但尚未得到充分研究。尽管已经发现了混合群体的观念优势，但研究很少关注其情感/动机贡献或选择观念的能力。在一项随机实验中，非交互然后交互（混合）组感知到 (1) 更高的目标清晰度、参与度和任务吸引力，以及 (2) 比所有非交互组选择了更多的优质想法。此外，(3) 考虑到混合和全非交互条件在想法选择中都至关重要，参与者单独选择了比未选择的想法更有用，因此总体质量更高的想法。