Processing Status Information

Abstract

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 effects of less relevant information. Results from a vignette study confirmed predictions of the original status theory and disconfirmed predictions of the competing theory. This WP was published by the authors (1992).

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Status Information

Citation

Balkwell, James, Joseph Berger, Murray Webster, Jr., Max Nelson-Kilger, and Jacqueline Cashen.1992. “Processing Status Information: Some Tests of Competing Theoretical Arguments” Chap. 1, pp. 1 - 20 in Edward J. Law¬ler, Barry Markovsky, Cecilia L. Ridge¬way, and Henry A. Walker (Editors), Ad¬vances in Group Processes, Vol. 9. Green¬wich, CT: JAI Press.