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

通常在群体环境中，地位差异和群体内成员关系都是显著的。地位概括理论描述了地位差异如何导致能力差异的推论，而情境认同理论描述了群体成员身份如何导致影响行为的某些差异。在两个过程都发挥作用的情况下，它们可能会做出不同的预测。例如，一个由共和党人和民主党人组成的委员会将显示出依赖于能力推断（一个地位过程）和群体成员（一个身份过程）的影响效应。这个项目提供了这种情况的概念化，并在一系列的实验中测试概念化。这项工作的主要结果将是建立一种在某些情况下地位和身份如何相互作用的理论，该理论可能具有重要的现实应用。

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.