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Peer reviewedZaccaro, Stephen J.; Lowe, Charles A. – Journal of Social Psychology, 1988
Presents a study designed to contrast the effects of task-based and interpersonal cohesiveness on group performance of students. Concludes that high task cohesion helped group performance, while interpersonal attraction had no apparent effect. Finding that increased interpersonal cohesion improved task commitment, the authors suggest that…
Descriptors: College Students, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics, Group Unity
Download full textKnowles, Eric S. – 1972
The question whether individual study of risk problems (familiarization) leads to greater risk taking was investigated. Several explanations of the risk taking shifts are explicit in their requirement for group or social interaction. Investigations of whether risk shifts can be produced in the absence of group interaction have produced conflicting…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics
