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Jurma, William E.; Wright, Beverly C. – Small Group Research: An International Journal of Theory, Investigation, and Application, 1990
Investigated effects on group member satisfaction and communication behavior when male and female leaders either maintained or lost reward power during problem-solving sessions. Found group member communication was more substantive and positive when leaders maintained reward power than when they lost it; communication behavior was also affected by…
Descriptors: College Students, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics, Higher Education
Pace, Roger C. – 1983
To investigate the influence of group settings on the receiver's perception of an inducement to rhetorical transactions, 45 undergraduates in a basic speech communication course were asked to rank from most important to least important a group of items that might help survivors of an arctic plane crash. After completing individual rankings,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Group Behavior, Group Discussion