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The Communication Network Structures of R & D Units
(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 ...
The Impact of Selected Social Environmental and Individual Factors on Stress Responses
(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, ...
Introduction to a Theory of Group Structure and Information Exchange
(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 ...
The Legitimacy of Redistributive Agendas
(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 ...
Interdependence, Interaction, and Productivity
(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 ...
Gender or Status: The Effects of Differences in Sex on Behavior under Certain Conditions of Disadvantage
(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 ...
When Inequality is Equitable: Validity, Propriety and Third Party Allocations
(2017-08-16)
The author summarizes theories of equity and distributive justice that predict actors use legitimate distribution rules to act to maintain or to restore equity. He elaborates those ideas, distinguishing legitimacy based ...
Modes of Status Equilibration
(2017-08-24)
This is a revision of TR#23, focusing on the experimental tests.
A Revised Bibliography of Expectation States Research
(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.
Status, Excuses, and Justifications
(2017-08-16)
The authors conducted experimental research on the acceptability of excuses (a personal account of making a procedural error) and justifications (an argument for what the violator had done) for norm violation. The actor ...