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Cline, Rebecca J. Welch – Communication Quarterly, 1990
Reconceptualizes groupthink symptoms as observable group interaction patterns. Proposes two coding systems for detecting the illusion of unanimity symptom, detecting both degree of unanimity and degree of the illusory versus substantive nature of that unanimity. (SR)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Decision Making, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics
Gouran, Dennis S. – 1988
In the history of small group studies (in the field of communication theory and research), two factors contributed to the changes that led to Ernest Bormann publishing in 1970 his work questioning the value of the knowledge being reported and the appropriateness of the methods by which it was being generated. First, prior to 1965, a limited amount…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Decision Making, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics
Bennie, Roanna Violett; Eadie, William F. – 1981
A model of the generation of initial trusting attitudes toward groups by individuals who were not members of those groups was developed from the literature on interpersonal trust. The model proposed that perceptions of situational threat would be preconditions to the saliency of trust as a concept. Given that trust was a salient concept, the model…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes, Behavioral Science Research, College Students