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Presents theoretical, review, and empirically-based papers on group phenomena. This title features topics such as status processes, group structure, and decision making. It also considers work on interpersonal behaviour in dyads (the smallest group).
List of contents
Preface (B. Markovsky et al.). Performance under different contingent reward systems: a reconceptualization of the cooperative-competitive-individualistic literature (J.M. Chertkoff, D.J. Mesch). A reformulated social identity theory (C. Barnum). Decision making in a dyad's response to a fire alarm: a computer simulation investigation (W.E. Feinberg, N.R. Johnson). A solidaristic theory of social order (Satoshi Kanazawa). Comfort regulation as a morphogenetic principle: local dynamics of dominance, competition, and attachment (T.S. Smith, G.T. Stevens). Transitions in teamwork in new organizational forms (G. DeSanctis, M.S. Poole). "I think we can, I think we can...": the role of efficacy beliefs in group and team effectiveness (L.J. Mischel, G. Northcraft). Network connection and exchange ratios: theory, predictions and experimental tests (D. Willer, J. Skvoretz). Who benefits from being bold: the interactive effects of task cues and status characteristics on influence in mock jury groups (L. Slattery Rashotte, L. Smith-Lovin). The theory of structural ritualization (J.D. Knottnerus). Grounding groups in theory: functional, cognitive, and structural interdependencies (S. Lindenberg).
Summary
Presents theoretical, review, and empirically-based papers on group phenomena. This title features topics such as status processes, group structure, and decision making. It also considers work on interpersonal behaviour in dyads (the smallest group).
