Doctoral Dissertation Research: Status, Group Identity and Influence: An Experimental Test

SES 0082775PI：巴里·马科夫斯基，克里斯托弗·巴数值经常在组设置中，状态差异和组内成员身份都是显著的。身份泛化理论描述了身份差异如何导致差异能力的推断，而情境同一性理论描述了群体成员身份如何导致影响行为的某些差异。在两个过程都起作用的情况下，它们可能会做出不同的预测。例如，由共和党人和民主党人组成的委员会将显示出取决于能力推断(地位过程)和群体成员身份(身份过程)的影响效果。这个项目提供了对这种情况的概念化，并在一系列实验中测试了概念化。这项工作的主要成果将是建立一个关于身份和身份在某些情况下如何相互作用的理论，该理论可能在现实生活中具有重要的应用。

SES 0082775PI: Barry Markovsky, Christopher BarnumOftentimes in group settings, both status differences and in-group membership are salient. Theories of status generalization describe how status differences can lead to inferences of differential ability, while theories of situated identities describe how group membership can lead to certain differences in influence behaviors. In situations where both processes function, they may make different predictions. For instance, a committee composed of Republicans and Democrats will show influence effects dependent both on ability inferences (a status process) and on group membership (an identity process). This project offers a conceptualization of such situations, and tests the conceptualization in a series of experiments. The primary result of this work will be to build a theory of how status and identity interact in some cases, and the theory may have important real-life applications.