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Corinne Bendersky, Julia Bear, Kristin Behfar, Laurie R. Weingart, Gergana Todorova and Karen A. Jehn the conflict literature has been greatly influenced by the work published by karen Jehn 15 years ago that introduced a task-relationship-process conflict taxonomy of intragroup conflict (Jehn, 1995, 1997). However, recent work suggests limitations of this conceptualization and its accompanying measures of conflict. for example, the three conflict “types” are often highly correlated (korsgaard et al., 2008; simons and Peterson, 2000); they often transform into each other (greer et al., 2008); the effects depend on moderating conditions (Jehn and bendersky, 2003).“new types,” such as status conflict and two dimensions of process conflict, have been identified (behfar et al., 2011; bendersky and Hays, 2012), and different ways of conceptualizing the relationship among types have been proposed (for example, barki …