Browsing Stanford Sociology Technical Reports and Working Papers, 1961-1993 by Title
Now showing items 17-36 of 95
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(2015-08-15)The authors measured alpha brain wave activity from volunteers as a function of gender of experimenter and gender of volunteer. Cross-gender combinations, especially for male volunteer—female experimenter, showed different ...
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(2015-08-15)The authors explore revolutionary coalition formation in equitable situations. They posited that actors would form such coalitions if the equitable relations were threatened. Results of an experimental test of that idea ...
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(2015-08-06)The author analyzed questionnaire responses from students in 99 colleges. College effects were much smaller than individual background factors and freshman occupational choices. Larger colleges tended to shift occupational ...
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(2015-08-12)The authors propose a theory in which status generalization from a diffuse status characteristic such as age, race or gender can be eliminated by introducing contradictory information about a specific status characteristic ...
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(2015-08-15)The authors describe methodological issues of panel analysis designs; in particular, autocorrelation of errors across waves. They recommend constructing a “pooled” model of data from all waves to deal with design and ...
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(2015-07-28)The authors elaborate the theory and model presented inTechnical Report 18 on the formation and maintenance of performance expectation states in task groups, and their effects on group structure and interaction. The main ...
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(2015-08-10)This reports a study of the extent of violence and disorder, drug use, vandalism and theft, and racial conflicts in high schools, and of attempts at social control. The authors analyzed two national surveys of school ...
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(2015-08-15)This technical report updates the theoretical developments and empirical research in the program since the review by Berger, Rosenholtz, and Zelditch (1980).
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(2015-07-26)The authors develop a theory in which consistency of ranks on position and ability affect individual satisfaction and system stability. The mechanism is rewards associated with different patterns. For instance, when position ...
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(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 ...
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(2015-08-15)This Technical Report (similar to 32, 35 and 53) addresses the form of combination of status characteristics with particular interest in developing the theory of status characteristics and expectation states for multi- ...
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(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, ...
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(2015-08-15)The authors describe and evaluate several indices of brain hemisphere lateralization. The methods use different data, including response accuracy, reaction times, and EEG asymmetry. They describe an index- free ranking ...
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(2015-07-06)Moore replicated and extended a finding of Miyamoto and Dornbusch (1956) with a different population in a different setting. Self-concepts of married couples were closely linked with their spouses’ views, but even more ...
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(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 ...
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(2015-08-15)Research teams may be studied as social systems organized along dimensions of status, such as rights to evaluate others and to allocate rewards. “Status consistency” is the degree to which salient statuses an individual ...