The Connection Between Sentiments and Social Status

这个项目通过实验室实验的方式测试了一种新的理论，即人类的情感是如何与社会地位相关的。群体过程研究中的一种理论是关于群体成员之间的情感，喜欢和不喜欢的关系是如何组织群体的。另一条线索是关于任务小组中社会地位的安排如何促进或阻碍小组成员为小组目标做出贡献的机会。在这个项目中测试的理论是这些的结合。它潜在的好处在于它直接适用于企业、学术界和其他专业组织中的项目团队。理论预测是利用群体过程传统中的期望状态理论的数学工具推导出来的。这些预测是通过涉及六个条件的实验设计来验证的。实验设置是对传统的三人组实验配置的适应，在这个传统中，社会影响是通过观察二元选择任务的变化来衡量的。在整个研究中，将从150名研究参与者中收集有效数据。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project tests, by means of laboratory experiments, a new theory of how sentiments are related to social status in humans. One strand of theory in group processes research has concerned how sentiments, the liking and disliking relations among group members, organize groups. Another strand has concerned how the arrangement of social statuses in a task group fosters or hinders group members' opportunities to contribute to their group's goals. The theory tested in this project is a combination of these. Its potential benefits lie in its direct applicability to project teams within businesses, academia, and other professional organizations.The theoretical predictions are derived using the mathematical apparatus of expectations states theory in the group processes tradition. These predictions are tested using an experimental design involving six conditions. The experimental set-up is an adaptation to three-person groups of the usual experimental configuration in this tradition in which social influence is measured by looking at change in a binary choice task. For the entire study, valid data will be collected from 150 research participants.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.