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Effects of Sequences of Cognitions on Group Performance Over Time
Extending past research showing that sequences of low cognitions (low-level processing of information) and high cognitions (high-level processing of information through questions and elaborations) influence the likelihoods of subsequent high and low cognitions, this study examines whether sequences of cognitions are related to group performance over time; 54 primary school students (18 …
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- Volume 48, Issue 2, April 2017; pp. 131–164
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New Insights Through a Temporal Lens
Team learning is a complex social phenomenon that develops and changes over time. Hence, to promote understanding of the fine-grained dynamics of team learning, research should account for the temporal patterns of team learning behavior. Taking important steps in this direction, this special issue offers novel insights into the dynamics of team learning by advocating a temporal perspect…
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- Volume 48, Issue 2, April 2017; pp. 123–130
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How Does Leader Other-Emotion Appraisal Influence Employees? The Multilevel D…
This research explores the multilevel dual-mediation processes related to how leader other- emotion appraisal impacts employee turnover intention. Using a Taiwanese sample of 197 employees and their leaders in 64 work teams, the results revealed that leader other-emotion appraisal was positively related to leader positive emotion display and employee satisfaction with the leader. Moreove…
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- Volume 48, Issue 1, February 2017; pp. 93–114
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Role Variability in Self-Organizing Teams Working in Crisis Management
Crisis management teams face situations characterized by high risk, time pressure, and uncertainty and must adapt to a wide range of circumstances. Self-organizing teams have been proposed as an alternative to more traditional functional teams as they are described as adaptive and promptly reconfigurable. This study investigated whether self-organizing teams display more role flexibilit…
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- Volume 48, Issue 1, February 2017; pp. 62–92
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Effectiveness of a Group Intervention Program for Female Victims of Intimate …
Group intervention has been widely used with female victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). However, efficacy studies are scarce due to several research limitations. This study evaluates the effectiveness of an 8-week group intervention program, with a cognitive- behavioral orientation and attended by 23 female victims of IPV. Self-report psychological assessment was conducted at pre…
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- Volume 48, Issue 1, February 2017; pp. 34–61
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Development of a Synchronization Coefficient for Biosocial Interactions in Gr…
Body movements, autonomic arousal, and electroencephalograms (EEGs) of group members are often coordinated or synchronized with those of other group members. Linear and nonlinear measures of synchronization have been developed for pairs of individuals, but little work has been done on measures of synchronization for groups. We define a new synchronization coefficient, SE, for a group ba…
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- Volume 48, Issue 1, February 2017; pp. 3–33
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Valence uncertainty and the nature of the candidate pool in elections
Political parties in US politics are becoming increasingly polarized, with a growing number of extreme candidates entering electoral races. Why would extremists challenge more moderate opponents, since their chances of winning are supposedly very slim? I develop a model of electoral competition and endogenous entry to show that extremists rely on the possibility that the campaign might …
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- Volume 29, Issue 2, April 2017, 2016; pp. 327–350
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Group incentives and rational voting
Our model describes competition between groups driven by the choices of self-interested voters within groups. Within a Poisson voting environment, parties observe aggregate support from groups and can allocate prizes or punishments to them. In a tournament style analysis, the model characterizes how contingent allocation of prizes based on relative levels of support affects equilibrium …
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- Volume 29, Issue 2, April 2017; pp. 299–326
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Bargaining with a biased autocrat
This paper presents a specific dynamic extension to the model outlined by Jackson and Morelli (Political bias and war. The American Economic Review 97(4): 1353–1373). In particular, we focus on the implications of a long-lived leader who possesses bias towards or against war that potentially differs from the country (s)he represents. Bargaining and war outcomes are characterized in this…
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- Volume 29, Issue 2, April 2017; pp. 273–298
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Storable votes and judicial nominations in the US Senate
We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial nominations in the US Senate. We propose that nominations to the same level court be collected in periodic lists and voted upon individually with storable votes, allowing each senator to allocate freely across the list a fixed number of total votes. Although each nomina…
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- Volume 29, Issue 2, April 2017; pp. 243–272
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Are non-competitive elections good for citizens?
Many regimes, particularly autocracies, hold elections where the ruling regime’s victory is a foregone conclusion. This paper provides a formal analysis of how these non-competitive elections affect citizen welfare compared to a non-electoral baseline. To do so, I first develop a game-theoretic framework that captures many extant theories of why regimes hold non- competitive elections, w…
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- Volume 29, Issue 2, April 2017; pp. 214–242
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Partisan optimism and political bargaining
Partisan voters are optimistic about electoral outcomes: their estimates of the probability of electoral success for their party are substantially higher than the average among the electorate. This has large potential implications for political bargaining. Optimistic electoral expectations make costly bargaining delay look more favourable, which may induce partisans to punish their part…
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- Volume 29, Issue 2, April 2017; pp. 191–213
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Ambition, personalist regimes, and control of authoritarian leaders
Why do elites in some authoritarian regimes but not others remove from power the leaders who harm their interests? We develop a formal theory explaining this. The theory shows how elites’ ambition prevents them from controlling authoritarian leaders. Because ambitious elites are willing to stage coups to acquire power even when the leader is good, ambition renders elites’ claims that th…
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- Volume 29, Issue 2, April 2017; pp. 167–190
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Now or later? A dynamic analysis of judicial appointments
Observing substantial variations in Senate confirmation durations, existing studies have tried to explain when the Senate takes more or less time to confirm presidential nominees. However, they have largely ignored the president’s incentives to nominate someone who he expects will be delayed and do not specify conditions under which delay occurs. To improve on existing literature, I develop…
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- Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2017; pp. 149–164
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Policy dynamics and electoral uncertainty in the appointments process
By incorporating electoral uncertainty and policy dynamics into three two-period models of the appointments process, we show that gridlock may not always occur under divided government, contrary to the findings of static one-shot appointments models. In these cases, contrary to the ally principle familiar to students of bureaucratic politics, the president or the confirmer is willing to…
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- Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2017; pp. 124–148
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Participation and boycott in authoritarian elections
The existence of authoritarian elections raises a number of questions regarding the strategies of political opposition. What explains the choice of strategy among key opponents of a regime? What determines when opposition groups willingly participate in elections and when they engage in electoral boycott? To understand the opposition’s strategic choices, we develop a formal model of gov…
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- Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2017; pp. 97–123
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Working smart and hard? Agency effort, judicial review, and policy precision
The lion’s share of policy in the United States is made by administrative agencies. Agencies not only make policy choices, they must also implement policy effectively. Oversight institutions play an integral role in the policymaking process by monitoring, through review of agency policy actions, both policymaking tasks. Through analysis of a formal model I develop a theory of policymaking…
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- Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2017; pp. 69–96
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Ideology signaling in electoral politics
This paper considers an electoral model in which an incumbent and a challenger have ideological policy preferences that are private information. The incumbent may bias pre-electoral policies to signal preferences to the electorate with the aim of affecting the outcome of the election. When the two candidates are of completely different types, such a policy bias can occur only in a moder…
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- Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2017; pp. 48–68
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How uncertainty about judicial nominees can distort the confirmation process
Why are judicial nominees allowed to refuse to answer questions about important issues that could come before the courts? We address this question by examining the information environment surrounding judicial nominations. Using the Supreme Court as our example, we formulate a model that departs from the existing literature by incorporating the fact that the Senate often does not know what…
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- Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2017; pp. 22–47
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May’s theorem in one dimension
This paper provides three versions of May’s theorem on majority rule, adapted to the one- dimensional model common in formal political modeling applications. The key contribution is that single peakedness of voter preferences allows us to drop May’s restrictive positive responsiveness axiom. The simplest statement of the result holds when voter preferences are single peaked and linear (n…
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- Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2017; pp. 3–21
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