Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Impact of Task Feed- back on Expectations for Competence and Status

9400887 Berger博士学位论文研究改进资助项目。这是一项任务反馈对能力期望和地位期望影响的实验研究。众所周知，以任务为导向的小群体倾向于分成参与、任务活动、奖励行为和影响的一致模式。最近，理论家们开始研究这些互动等级对群体成员来说合法化或规范的条件。这项研究试图验证从期望状态理论发展而来的论点，即对任务结果的反馈将对后续任务的合法性可能性产生重要影响。通过实验，将基于初始状态的合法化可能性与存在或不存在的积极外部反馈相交叉，这增加了发生这种合法化的可能性。这个实验检验了期望状态理论的一个重要延伸，该理论在社会学和社会心理学的群体过程研究中都有很大的影响。这一传统在过去对行政和管理科学做出了贡献，我们希望这项研究也能这样做。除了研究取得的科学成果外，该奖项还将极大地帮助极有前途的学生完成博士论文的研究。有利于培养国家未来的科学人才，有利于培养下一代社会科学家。＊＊＊

9400887 Berger This is an award under the Grants for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research Program. It is an experimental study of the impact of task feedback on expectations for competence and status. It is well known that small task oriented groups tend to stratify into consistent patterns of participation, task activity, reward behavior and influence. Recently, theorists have begun to examine the conditions under which these interaction hierarchies become legitimated or normative for the members of the group. This study seeks to test the argument, developed from expectation states theory, that feedback on the outcome of a task will have important consequences for the likelihood of legitimation in subsequent tasks. The likelihood of legitimation based on initial status is experimentally crossed with the presence or absence of positive external feedback which increases the likelihood of such legitimation occurring. %%% This experiment tests an important extension of expectation states theory, which has become highly influential in research on group processes in both sociology and social psychology. This tradition has contributed in the past to administrative and management science, and we would expect this study to do so as well. In addition to the scientific gains to be achieved by the research, this award will materially assist a highly promising student in completing research for the Ph.D. dissertation. Thus it contributes to the future scientific manpower of the nation and the thorough training of the next generation of social scientists. ***