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Groupthink: Effects of Cohesiveness and Problem-Solving Procedures on Group Decision Making.
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Callaway, Michael R.; Esser, James K. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1984
Tested Janis' groupthink formulation with 126 students by manipulating group cohesiveness and adequacy of decision procedures in a factorial design. Results showed highest quality decisions were produced by groups of intermediate cohesiveness. Highly cohesive groups without adequate decision procedures (the groupthink condition) tended to make the…
Descriptors: College Students, Decision Making, Group Unity, Higher Education
Social Linkages and Organizational Commitment in Voluntary Organizations.
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Latham, Van M.; Lichtman, Cary M. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1984
Surveyed 519 Southern Baptists to test the prepotency of social linkages for predicting commitment in voluntary organizations. Results indicated that instrumentality theory (association with church gives prestige) was a weak predictor of organizational commitment. Cohesion theory (feeling wanted and needed by the church) produced more consistent…
Descriptors: Group Unity, Organizations (Groups), Religious Organizations, Social Influences
Ecological Determinants of "White Ethnic" Identity in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Dabrowski, Irene – Social Behavior and Personality, 1983
Conducted a comparative analysis to investigate the relationship between voluntary group participation and geographical sites of respective ethnic centers of the Croatian and Czech communities of St. Louis. Utilizing an ecological framework, the findings suggested organizational activity is strongly dependent on the environmental adequacy of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Activities, Cultural Centers, Ecology