Advances in Group Processes / Edition 1

by Edward J. Lawler, Shane R. Thye, Michael W. Macy

Overview

"Advances in Group Processes" publishes theoretical analyses, reviews and theory based empirical chapters on group phenomena. Volume 18 addresses a broad range of theoretical and empirical questions that cut across sociology, psychology, economics, and political science. The first two contributions examine the perceptual and interactional factors that result in leadership and inequality in small groups. The next chapter explores the psychology of buying and selling, focusing in particular on the perceptual biases that emerge when individuals exchange money for goods. The fourth chapter seeks to identify important personal characteristics and social factors that precipitate trust among strangers. Two chapters then address relatively new questions in the social sciences. Chapter five asks how the study of autistic individuals can shed light on basic cognitive processes and a theory of the mind. Chapter six shows how evolutionary psychology can help explain the emergence of social structures such as kinship networks. The final two chapters bring experimental evidence to bear on questions of status, influence, and affective reactions in groups. Overall, the volume includes contributions by major scholars from various social scientific disciplines that work in the general area of group processes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762307678
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	03/30/2001
Series:	Advances in Group Processes , #18
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Edward J. Lawler is Martin P. Catherwood Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He has coauthored three books and edited or co-edited 31 volumes in the annual series, Advances in Group Processes.

Shane R. Thye is Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina. He works in the general area of social psychology and group dynamics. He has published articles in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, and Social Psychology Quarterly

Table of Contents

List of Contributors.
Editorial Policy.
From prototypicality to power: A social identity analysis of leadership.
Rational and irrational bases of commitment to group hierarchies.
Egocentric empathy gaps in social interaction and exchange.
Into the looking glass: Discerning the social mind through the mindblind.
Do you trust? Whom do you trust? When do you trust?.
Where do social structures come from?.
Processing performance evaluations in homogeneous task groups: Feedback and gender effects.
The Camilleri-Berger model revisited.

Editorial Reviews

Social science and business scholars present theoretical analyses, reviews, and theory-based empirical findings on group phenomena in groups ranging from the very small to the very large. Among the topics are the enemy of my friend is easy to remember: balance as a compression heuristic, identity contests and the negotiation of organizational change, status and identity pivot points in social interaction, and deviation in voice pitch as a measure of physiological stress response to group processes.

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