Browsing Faculty-Curated Special Collections by Type "Working Paper"

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    • Cerebral Balance, Recognition Accuracy, and Confidence when Task Performance Requires the Use of Preconsciously Acquired Information 
      Perlaki, Kinga M.; Barchas, Patricia R. (2017-08-16)
      a. This TP is an attempt to identify brain mechanisms associated with the finding that mere exposure to words, patterns, and other stimuli often leads to liking, even when the exposure is too brief to produce conscious ...
    • The Communication Network Structures of R & D Units 
      Arechavala-Vargas, Ricardo (2017-08-16)
      The author develops a bounded rationality model of effects of communication structures and applies it to 223 R & D teams. One main result was that structural properties of a team’s network were strongly associated with ...
    • Directions in Expectation States Research 
      Berger, Joseph (Stanford University Press, 1988)
      This WP was prepared for a conference on the current state and future prospects for status and expectations research. It summarizes theoretical and empirical investigations, and describes the present structure of the ...
    • Expectations, Shared Awareness, and Power 
      Samuel, Yitzhak; Zelditch, Morris Jr (2017-08-16)
      The authors develop a theory of expectations about interpersonal power to control rewards and punishments, and to induce compliance. They present an extended review of conceptions of power, and identify four empirical ...
    • Expectations, Theory, and Group Processes 
      Berger, Joseph (Social Psychology Quarterly, 1992)
      The author describes his career and the growth of the Expectation States research program. This talk was delivered when Joseph Berger received the Cooley-Mead Award from the Social Psychology Section of the American ...
    • Expected Managerial Careers within Growing and Declining R & D Establishments 
      Shenhav, Yehouda A. (Work and Organizations, 1988)
      The author notes that many studies have used individual-level variables to predict a tendency of scientists to aspire to managerial careers, and proposes that a better understanding of such career progression would include ...
    • Expected Managerial Careers within Growing and Declining R & D Establishments 
      Shenhav, Yehouda A. (Scientometrics, 1989)
      The authors distinguish six types of productivity in different contexts and develop six corresponding scales and estimate reliability coefficients. Coefficients differ depending on context, supporting an argument that the ...
    • Gender or Status: The Effects of Differences in Sex on Behavior under Certain Conditions of Disadvantage 
      Walker, Henry A.; Smith-Donals, Louise (2017-08-16)
      a. The authors address gender stereotypes: women are passive, dependent, compliant, cooperative, and socially oriented; while men are independent, competitive, and task-focused. They note that those behaviors are found in ...
    • The Impact of Selected Social Environmental and Individual Factors on Stress Responses 
      Montoya, Valerie C.; Barr-Bryan, Dorine; Perlaki, Kinga M.; Barchas, Patricia R. (2017-08-16)
      a. The authors attempt to clarify some factors in the relationships between high levels of stress and poor physical and mental health. They review many possible sources of individual variation in responses to stress, ...
    • Interdependence, Interaction, and Productivity 
      Cohen, Bernard P.; Arechavala-Vargas, Ricardo (2017-08-16)
      Group tasks require communication, but communication can be excessive and time-wasting. The authors develop propositions group productivity and interaction. High reciprocal interdependence in teams requires high levels of ...
    • Introduction to a Theory of Group Structure and Information Exchange 
      Cohen, Bernard P.; Silver, Steven D. (2017-08-16)
      This theoretical paper develops a framework for relationships between group structure and information exchange. Status orders among group members are important in situations that lack well-developed practices for work and ...
    • Legitimacy and Collective Action 
      Thomas, George M.; Walker, Henry A.; Zelditch, Morris Jr (2017-08-16)
      This is a revision of WP 84-4. The authors develop an explicit theoretical foundation for the common belief that legitimation is somehow important in mobilizing collective action. They distinguish validity of a rule ...
    • Legitimacy and the Support of Revolutionary Coalitions 
      Walker, Henry A.; Rogers, Larry; Lyman, Katherine; Zelditch, Morris Jr (2017-08-16)
      The authors develop a theory of conditions under which inequity will lead to attempts to change the structure. Factors affecting the likelihood of attempts include power differences, false consciousness, low self-esteem, ...
    • The Legitimacy of Redistributive Agendas 
      Zelditch, Morris Jr; Gilliland, Edward; Thomas, George M (2017-08-16)
      a. The authors investigate the idea of nondecisions regarding redistributive political agenda. They focus on an idea that the greater the likelihood that a policy would redistribute resources, the less likely that policy ...
    • A (Not So) Quick and Dirty Look at Robust M-Estimation 
      Wu, Lawrence L. (2017-08-16)
      a. Robust estimators, those procedures that distinguish likely from unlikely distributions, sometimes are preferable to either parametric or distribution-free estimations. This WP explores statistical properties of maximum ...
    • Organization and productivity in R & D Teams: A Report of Research Findings 
      Cohen, Bernard P.; Arechavala-Vargas, Ricardo; Nobel, Darla R.; Shenhav, Yehouda A. (American Sociological Review, 1991)
      The authors report findings from 224 teams in Silicon Valley on the effects of factors on team productivity and innovativeness. The factors are of four types: interaction, team composition, team organization, and perceptions ...
    • Participation in Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Groups: A Theoretical Integration 
      Fisek, M. Hamit; Berger, Joseph; Norman, Robert Z. (The American Journal of Sociology, 1991)
      The authors define a behavior interchange pattern that can affect performance expectation states and behavior. This WP was published by the authors (1991).
    • Processing Status Information 
      Balkwell, James W.; Berger, Joseph; Webster, Murray Jr.; Nelson-Kilger, Max; Cashen, Jacqueline (JAI Press, 1992)
      The authors compare variant formulations (different from those considered in 1990-1) for predicting the processing of status information. The main competitor considered argued that highly relevant information would eliminate ...
    • Programs, Theory, and Metatheory 
      Wagner, David G.; Berger, Joseph (2017-08-16)
      The authors respond to two critiques of their article “Do Sociological Theories Grow?” (1985). This WP is a somewhat longer version of their published responses (1986).
    • A Revised Bibliography of Expectation States Research 
      Berger, Joseph; Zelditch, Morris Jr (2017-08-16)
      As titled. This WP is a revision and expansion of TR#67. Berger, Wagner, and Webster (2014) provide a newer, although focused, view of the program.