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Bringing in the Experts: How Team Composition and Collaborative Planning Join…
This study investigates the separate and joint effects of the inclusion of experts and collaborative planning on the performance of analytic teams. Teams either did or did not include members with expert-level task-relevant cognitive abilities, and either did or did not receive an intervention that fostered collaborative planning. Results support the authors' hypothesis that analytic performanc…
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- Vol. 39, No. 3, June 2008. Page 352-371
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Interdisciplinarity as Teamwork: How the Science of Teams Can Inform Team Sci…
This essay discusses interdisciplinary research in the context of science policy and the practice of science. Comparisons between interdisciplinary research and other forms of cross-disciplinary research are made, and a brief discussion of the development of the concept of interdisciplinarity is provided. The overarching thesis of this essay is that interdisciplinary research is team rese…
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- Vol. 39, No. 3, June 2008. Page 251-277
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Conflict Transformation: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Relationships Be…
In this longitudinal study, the authors examine the relationships between task, relationship, and process conflict over time. They also look at the role of conflict resolution in determining whether certain forms of intragroup conflict are related to the appearance of other forms of conflict over time. Their findings indicate a negative and long-lasting impact of process conflict occurring earl…
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- Vol. 39, No. 3, June 2008. Page 278-302
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The Pros and Cons of Dyadic Side Conversations in Small Groups: The Impact of…
This research explores the impact of dyadic side conversations on group norms within three- and four-person groups. The authors propose a link between dyadic communication and group norms such that the absence of dyadic communication enhances a norm of group unity, whereas its presence enhances a norm of faction-forming. In two studies, we demonstrate that the presence of dyadic communication o…
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- Vol. 39, No. 3, June 2009. Page 372-390
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Criteria for Assessing the Level of Group Development (LGD) of Work Groups: G…
The main objective of this study is to identify criteria that would allow us to determine when a collection of people is a group. A bibliographic search of the psychological literature has yielded the terms groupness, entitativity, and groupality. These three constructs are then theoretically analyzed and compared, and are found to share two main aspects: (a) the conception of groups as a conti…
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- Vol. 39, No. 4, August 2008. Page 492-514
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Gender Social and Personal Identity, Sex Dissimilarity, Relationship Conflict…
Research on the linkage between sex diversity and relationship conflict has yielded inconsistent findings. In efforts to address this inconsistency and to better understand what contributes to group member perceptions of relationship conflict, interrelationships among sex dissimilarity, gender identity, and relationship conflict were examined utilizing theoretical frameworks from the literature…
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- Vol. 39, No. 4, August 2008. Page 468-491
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Designing in Teams: Does Personality Matter?
Twenty-six multidisciplinary student design teams (n = 128) each built a robot that had to perform a specific task in a design contest. For these teams, an input—process—output framework of team member personality (input), generic and specific design behaviors (process), and contest result and supervisor and team member ratings of the design (output) was researched using correlations. Agreeable…
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- Vol. 39, No. 4, August 2008. Page 438-467
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Us and Them: Conflict, Collaboration, and the Discursive Negotiation of Multi…
This article explores the conflict that emerged during the work of university researchers, education consultants, and district multishareholder teams engaged in a partnership for school reform. The authors draw on analysis of naturally occurring talk and other data collected over 2 years to explore the presence of conflict between a multishareholder team and a group of consultants during a 4-da…
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- Vol. 39, No. 4, August 2008. Page 397-437
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Effects of Training on Idea Generation in Groups
This study examined the effects of training and sequence of nominal and interactive groups on idea generation. Participants in groups of three or four were either trained in idea generation skills or were simply engaged in an equivalent amount of practice. They subsequently were asked to brainstorm in either an alone-to-group or a group-to-alone sequence. Training had a significant positive eff…
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- Vol. 39, No. 5, October 2008. Page 523-541
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The ASA Framework: A Field Study of Group Personality Composition and Group P…
A theoretical model integrating Schneider's Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA) framework, group personality composition, and group performance is presented. The proposed model focuses on three operationalizations of group composition based on the Big Five personality traits. This model suggests that for certain types of teams group minimum scores vary more than group mean scores, resulting in…
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- Vol. 39, No. 5, October 2008. Page 616-635
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Examining Team Planning Through an Episodic Lens: Effects of Deliberate, Cont…
Three types of team planning processes differing in terms of timing and adaptation capacity are investigated. Deliberate planning and contingency planning occur during team transition phases; deliberate planning specifies a primary course of action whereas contingency planning specifies backup plans. Reactive adjustment is planning that occurs during the action phase when teams adapt plans to a…
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- Vol. 39, No. 5, October 2008. Page 542-568
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The Effects of Status Violations on Hierarchy and Influence in Groups
In an initial test of Wagner's (1988) status violation theory, we examine how status violations, or the failure to behave in accord with the expectations attached to a person's status position in a group, may reduce the person's status position. Status violations highlight the underlying normative order that forms the group's expectations regarding appropriate status-related behaviors. Status v…
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- Vol. 39, No. 5, October 2008. Page 569-587
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Development of Cognitive and Affective Trust in Teams: A Longitudinal Study
The present research examines the development of two dimensions of trust, cognitive and affective, in student project teams over the course of a semester. Empirical examination of the evolution of multidimensional trust and its unique antecedents was explored. The results show that early trust emerges as a one-dimensional factor early in the life span of a team; cognitive and affective trust em…
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- Vol. 39, No. 6, December 2008. Page 746-769
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Mechanisms Underlying Nationality-Based Discrimination in Teams: A Quasi-Expe…
This study examines mechanisms underlying nationality-based discrimination from two different perspectives: social psychology and microeconomics. The authors studied 91 teams in a binational setting that were offered a new team member. National composition of the team and nationality of the new member were manipulated. Overall, the study showed that discrimination based on nationality does exis…
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- Vol. 39, No. 6, December 2008. Page 643-672
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The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in the Relationship Be…
The aim of this research is to examine the role of information and communication technologies in the relationship between group effectiveness and group potency changes. A laboratory experiment compared 44 groups of four members, working in two communication media—face-to-face condition and computer-mediated communication (CMC). Groups developed a project during 4 weekly meetings during a 1-mont…
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- Vol. 39, No. 6, December 2008. Page 728-745
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Dueling Narratives: How Peer Leaders Use Narrative to Frame Meaning in Commun…
This article looks at leadership in interorganizational peer-led teams: people from different backgrounds and organizations who are at comparable hierarchical levels with the leader. It also looks at the challenges of leading such a group to a new model of thinking in which the traditionally dominant frame is no longer valid. This research, reporting on observations of 118 child and family team…
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- Vol. 39, No. 6, December 2008. Page 706-727
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Reactions to Social Dilemmas as a Function of Group Identity, Rational Calcul…
A group identification approach to social dilemmas is proposed, and the results of three studies are presented. Study 1 found that members of real groups were more cooperative than members of contrived groups and that this effect was mediated by group identification. Study 2 showed that participants were more cooperative when their in-group was in the majority and that this effect was moderated…
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- Vol. 39, No. 6, December 2008. Page 673-705
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Evaluation Concerns and the Köhler Effect: The Impact of Physical Presence o…
This study examined whether increasing evaluation concerns would increase the magnitude of the Köhler effect (i.e., one type of motivation gain that has been documented to occur in small groups). Evaluation concerns were manipulated by having participants work in the physical presence or virtual presence of their coworker. As anticipated, motivation gains were significantly greater for particip…
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- Vol. 39, No. 6, December 2008. Page 795-812
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Structuring Asynchronous Discussion Groups by Introducing Roles: Do Students …
This study focused on the introduction of roles as a scripting tool in asynchronous text-based discussion groups. Five roles were selected: source searcher, theoretician, summarizer, moderator, and starter. Because existing research on role assignment often neglects to check whether the role assignment is successful, the main goal was to examine to what extent the participants enacted assigned …
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- Vol. 39, No. 6, December 2008. Page 770-794
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HOW POLICY-MAKERS (REALLY) UNDERSTAND GLOBALIZATION: THE INTERNAL ARCHITECTUR…
There is a growing acceptance in the literature of a potentially significant causal role for ideas about globalization in shaping the trajectory of policy and institutional reform in contemporary Europe. Yet we still know remarkably little about policy-makers' understandings of globalization, save those they choose to declare publicly. This paper contributes to the important task of operational…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 903–927, December 2010
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- 00333298
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