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Smith, Bruce L. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1993
This study examined the effects of discounting behavior ("put downs") on the quantity and quality of ideas produced by a group and on the group climate. Subjects were 52 college students divided into 8 groups. Groups in which discounting occurred produced significantly fewer ideas, and the emotional response to the group process was…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Brainstorming, College Students
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Bosley, Deborah S. – Technical Communication Quarterly, 1993
Examines the cultural assumptions about what makes an effective team member. Argues that educators typically design collaborative projects and evaluate student participants by using a Western mode of how people should behave in groups. Suggests pedagogical strategies to prepare students for collaborating with students from many cultures. (RS)
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Communication Skills, Cultural Differences, Cultural Traits
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Bagnall, Richard G. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1990
Critiques Boshier's normative model for adult education futures, which has three components: learner motivation, level of need, and future centeredness. Finds that the first two components encourage unnecessary conflict between individual and societal needs; recommends replacing "needs" with broadly based educational goals and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives, Educational Theories
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Cohen, Elizabeth G. – Review of Educational Research, 1994
This review includes recent research that manipulated features of cooperative learning as well as studies of the relationship between interaction in small groups and outcomes. The analysis examines the kinds of discourse that are productive for different types of learning and moves toward studies of task and interaction. (SLD)
Descriptors: Competition, Cooperative Learning, Educational Change, Group Behavior
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Kim, Bryan S. K.; Atkinson, Donald R.; Yang, Peggy H. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1999
Client adherence to culture-of-origin values plays an important role in the provision of culturally relevant psychological services. Lack of instruments that measure ethnic cultural values has been a shortcoming of past research. Describes development of an Asian Values Scale (AVS) used to measure psychometric measures in four studies. Results…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Attitude Measures, Cultural Background, Cultural Interrelationships
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Parker, Jeffrey G. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Observed functioning of same-sex triads of middle grade children during an intimate discussion, a cooperative puzzle task, a competitive game, and free play. Found that triads of girls were more intimate, exchanged more information, and were less aggressive than triads of boys. Girls and boys expressed similar attitudes toward triadic interaction,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Friendship
Bradley, Mimi – 1994
An ethnographic study explored how small groups of student readers interacted in a classroom over time to interpret short stories assigned by a teacher. For five weeks, eight sixth-grade volunteers met on consecutive Fridays in two separate face-to-face discussion groups to read, discuss, rewrite, and perform a short story as a play. Primary data…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. Test Collection. – 1991
The 76 tests in this bibliography include descriptions of measures examining the dynamics of functioning groups as a whole and other measures eliciting information concerned with group members on an individual basis. Although all ages are represented, the tests target primarily adults. This document is one in a series of topical bibliographies…
Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Attitude Measures, Elementary Secondary Education
Esborg, Patricia K.; Reiss, David – 1990
This study investigated the ways in which families operate as a unit while presenting a story to an interviewer, and the ways in which they interface with the outside world, as represented by the interviewer. A description of the study is preceded by an overview of relevant literature, including studies that concerned microsocial analyses, shared…
Descriptors: Family Attitudes, Family Life, Family Relationship, Group Behavior
Fox, Karl A. – 1990
The concept of behavior settings--the environments shaping individual behavior--was originated by Roger Barker in 1950 in connection with his community surveys in a small Kansas town, code-named Midwest. This book seeks to provide rural social scientists with an understanding of Barker's eco-behavioral approach and proposed adaptations of it to…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Community Study, Data Interpretation
Wolff, Leanne O. – 1989
Values can and should be a part of small group communication instruction. Discourse is value laden and to understand the communication process, the role of values must be understood. Many students come to the classroom not understanding values, and not being aware of the role of values in decision-making. Their lack of understanding requires that…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Group Behavior, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication
Putnam, Linda L.; VanHoeven, Shirley A. – 1986
A study tested a model of bargaining rite by examining procedural rituals, organized fantasies, and ritualistic language in teachers' negotiations. Specifically, it sought to identify the communicative forms that create shared consciousness, to describe shared fantasies, to illustrate the role of group fantasy in forming rhetorical visions, and to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Collective Bargaining, Communication Research, Conflict Resolution
Olaye, Imafidon – 1986
A study examined the effect of assigned social decision rule (whether a jury is required to give a unanimous or less than unanimous verdict) on the process and product of mock jury deliberations. Subjects, 360 students from an eastern university, were randomly assigned to six-member juries under three decision rule conditions: (1) unanimity, (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conflict Resolution, Court Litigation, Group Behavior
Boldt, Robert F. – 1983
"Outlier studies" identify items for which extreme differences in performance by contrasting groups occur; these extreme items are the "outliers" referred to. Review of the studies conducted on tests receiving major use in higher education reveals that though one cannot make a priori classifications of outliers with confidence,…
Descriptors: Classification, Cultural Differences, Group Behavior, Higher Education
Cline, Rebecca J. – 1983
The decisions President Richard Nixon and his closest advisors made in the Watergate coverup were products of what Irving Janis calls "groupthink." Groupthink, a type of decision-making emphasizing unanimity over objective evaluation, develops when the decision makers (1) form a group of marked cohesiveness, (2) insulate themselves from…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Communication Research, Conformity, Content Analysis
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