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Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-220) and index 1. Introduction: the defining of a group ; explaining human reliance on groups; group characteristics -- 2. Social facilitation: Drive theory and social facilitation/impairment; Zajonc's mere presence hypothesis; Cottrell's learned drive view; Distraction/conflict theory; Drive theory on trial; Self-awareness theory; Theories of self-presentation and self-perception; Attentional theories -- 3. Individual versus group performance: Early research; Task, resources, and potential, Steiner's model of group performance; The experimental analysis of process loss -- 4. Group motivation losses: Social loafing; Free riding; Inequity-based motivation losses -- 5. Social influence and conformity: Social comparison theory; Conformity; Social impact theory; Groupthink; Group polarization; Minority and majority influence; Intense indoctrination -- 6. Group decision making: Social combination approaches to group decision making; Jury decision making; SDS analysis of group performance; Social communication and social combination, towards integration -- 7. Social dilemmas: Cooperation in social dilemmas, motives and determinants; Structur

Author

Robert A. Baron, Norbert L. Kerr, Norman Miller, Robert S. Baron

Publisher

Brooks/Cole Publishing Company

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9789652673060

Subjects

Sociology, Psychology, Medical