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The Existential Center of Small Groups : Member’s Conduct and Interaction

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In every society groups rather than individuals are given responsibility for producing results that individuals potentially could produce just as well, but without the benefits of group effort. Once a small discussion group is convened, the members can be counted on to interact, often at length and sometimes contentiously, incontrovertible evidence that their interaction accomplishes something over and above what comes about because of characteristics of the task, cognitive processing, and context. And in order for members to achieve the collaboration and interdependence that make them a group rather than co-present individuals, they must interact. Hence, it is essential for small group researchers to examine behavioral data (by which we mean interactional conduct) if we are to understand what gives small groups the distinct utilities with which they are credited. This position does not mean that individual motivation, cognition and information processing, and other related phenomena should be ignored. It means rather that these matters are secondary to and contingent on interactional conduct and processes.

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Small Group Research

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Thousand Oak : sage publisher., 2011

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English

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10464964

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Vol. 42 no. 3, June 2011.pp. 343-358

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Decision making
Group interaction
The Existential Center of Small Groups
Data analysis
Social cognition

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