ISBN:
9780863775949
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (564 p.)
Series Statement:
Key Readings in Social Psychology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Small Groups : Key Readings
DDC:
302.3/4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The goal of this volume is to convey the diversity, breadth and excitement of small group research by acquainting students with work on five fundamental aspects of groups
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; About the Editors; Acknowledgments; Small Groups: An Overview; Part 1: Group Composition; Reading 1 The Contribution of Influence and Selection to Adolescent Peer Group Homogeneity: The Case of Adolescent Cigarette Smoking; Reading 2 Some Effects of Proportions on Group Life: Skewed Sex Ratios and Responses to Token Women; Reading 3 Effects of Crew Composition on Crew Performance: Does the Whole Equal the Sum of Its Parts?; Part 2: Group Structure; Reading 4 Status, Expectations, and Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review and Test of the Theory
Description / Table of Contents:
Reading 5 Asymmetries in Attachments to Groups and to Their Members: Distinguishing Between Common-Identity and Common-Bond GroupsReading 6 The "Friendly" Poker Game: A Study of an Ephemeral Role; Part 3: Conflict in Groups; Reading 7 Effects of Group Identity on Resource Use in a Simulated Commons Dilemma; Reading 8 Status, Ideology, and Integrative Complexity on the U.S. Supreme Court: Rethinking the Politics of Political Decision Making; Reading 9 Being Better by Being Right: Subjective Group Dynamics and Derogation of In-Group Deviants When Generic Norms are Undermined
Description / Table of Contents:
Reading 10 Does Power Corrupt?Part 4: Group Performance; Part 4 A: Decision Making; Reading 11 Collective Induction; Reading 12 Social Transition Schemes: Charting the Group's Road to Agreement; Reading 13 Pooling of Unshared Information in Group Decision Making: Biased Information Sampling During Discussion; Reading 14 Threat, Cohesion, and Group Effectiveness: Testing a Social Identity Maintenance Perspective on Groupthink; Reading 15 The Effects of Repeated Expressions on Attitude Polarization During Group Discussions; Part 4 B: Productivity
Description / Table of Contents:
Reading 16 Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social LoafingReading 17 Impact of Group Goals, Task Component Complexity, Effort, and Planning on Group Performance; Reading 18 Transactive Memory: Learning Who Knows What in Work Groups and Organizations; Part 4 C: Leadership; Reading 19 Self-Monitoring and Trait-Based Variance in Leadership: An Investigation of Leader Flexibility Across Multiple Group Situations; Reading 20 The Contingency Model: A Theory of Leadership Effectiveness
Description / Table of Contents:
Reading 21 Self-Categorization and Leadership: Effects of Group Prototypicality and Leader StereotypicalityReading 22 The Romance of Leadership; Part 5: Group Ecology; Reading 23 Coming Out in the Age of the Internet: Identity "Demarginalization" Through Virtual Group Participation; Reading 24 Stability, Bistability, and Instability in Small Group Influence Patterns; Reading 25 Socialization in Organizations and Work Groups; Reading 26 Beyond Task and Maintenance: Defining External Functions in Groups; Appendix: How to Read a Journal Article in Social Psychology; Author Index; Subject Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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