Participants described the effectiveness of team members teaching one another about their respective disciplines, including the disciplines’ implicit values, and what unique contributions each discipline could make to the team's research goals, in terms of concepts, theories, variables, and methods. This was done both formally and informally. One participant described how her research team had brown bag lunches in which each team member gave a talk about his or her discipline. Another described teaching and learning from colleagues over dinner at the TREC I semi-annual grantee meetings. Having people listen to each other, what each other actually do, and trying to understand why they're doing it, makes a huge difference in accepting the legitimacy of all the different [research] questions.
