MOTIVATIONAL EFFECTS ON GROUP PROCESSES

对团体流程的激励作用

• 批准号: 2252375
• 负责人: Arie W. Kruglanski
• 金额: $ 8.42万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-07-01 至 2000-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2252375
• 关键词: attitude; cognition; decision making; human subject; insight; interpersonal relations; judgment; leadership; motivation; noise; problem solving; psychological concentration; social change; social competition; social conformity; social group process; social status; social support network

The general long term objectives of the research program are to study how the need for cognitive closure affects major aspects of group process in ways reflecting the evolution of a conservative attitude among the group members. More specifically, the following issues of interest will be investigated: I. Whether group members' need for closure affects the preferred type of leadership and decision-making rules. II. Whether group members' need for closure affects the status-allocation processes within the group. III. Whether group members' need for closure affects how it deals with change (in specific reference to membership-shifts and variation in group- tasks). IV. Whether group members' need for closure affects intra-group relations, in particular those between a minority and the-majority. V. Whether group members' need for closure affects inter-group relations, in particular those with outgroup vs. ingroup members. All the above issues bear on major ways in which individuals function in groups. Understanding those matters may have important health consequences both in terms of improving individuals' adjustment to groups, their ability to optimally function in groups and the ability of groups to optimally contribute to individuals' welfare. Altogether fifteen studies are proposed designed to allow convergent validation of the central theoretical notions through multiple operationalizations of the need for closure.

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