MOTIVATIONAL EFFECTS ON GROUP PROCESSES

研究计划的一般长期目标是研究如何 认知闭合的需要影响了群体过程的主要方面， 反映该群体中保守态度演变的方式 成员更具体地说，将讨论以下感兴趣的问题。 调查： I.群体成员的关闭需求是否会影响他们的首选类型 领导和决策规则。 二.群体成员的封闭需求是否影响地位分配 组内的进程。 三.群体成员的关闭需求是否会影响它如何处理 变化（具体涉及成员变化和群体变化） 任务）。 四.群体成员的封闭需求是否会影响群体内的关系， 特别是少数人与多数人之间冲突。 诉群体成员的封闭需求是否会影响群体间的关系， 特别是那些有外群体成员和内群体成员人。 所有上述问题都影响到个人在社会中发挥作用的主要方式。 组了解这些问题可能会对健康产生重要影响 无论是在改善个人对群体的适应方面， 在群体中发挥最佳作用的能力，以及群体 最大限度地促进个人福利。共15项研究 提出的设计，以允许收敛验证的中央 理论概念，通过多种操作的需要， 结束

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.