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Peer reviewedShapiro, Rodney J.; Klein, Robert H. – Small Group Behavior, 1975
This study explores how accurately participants in an encounter group perceive the leaders. Accuracy of the participants' perceptions were measured at the beginning and the end of the experience. Results show that group members' perceptions of the leaders were highly inaccurate. (Author)
Descriptors: Evaluation, Leadership, Observation, Perception
Peer reviewedGemmill, Gary; Kraus, George – Small Group Behavior, 1988
Examines proposition that covert roles within a group are assigned to individual group members based on their propensity to verbally or nonverbally express certain patterns of unwanted, disowned, and projected emotions that are experienced as threatening by other members. Focuses on articulating a model, describing a method, and presenting…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Group Behavior, Group Counseling, Group Dynamics
Peer reviewedGemmill, Gary – Small Group Behavior, 1986
Examines the proposition that the "leader" role is an unconscious myth invented by members of a group to ward off anxieties and uncertainties associated with day-to-day exercise of interpersonal power. Focuses on describing the myth, its consequences for the involvement of group members, and researchable propositions derivable from the myth.…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Group Structure, Leaders, Leadership
Peer reviewedRees, C. Roger; Segal, Mady Wechsler – Small Group Behavior, 1984
Examined the degree of differentiation between instrumental and expressive leadership roles in two natural groups (N=101). Results showed a relatively high degree of leadership role integration with several members of each group fulfilling both instrumental and expressive leadership roles. (LLL)
Descriptors: Athletes, College Students, Football, Group Dynamics
Peer reviewedSherwood, John J.; Scherer, John J. – Small Group Behavior, 1975
The authors present a model which follows the development of a male-female relationship through dating, marriage and divorce. They discuss the factors that cause friction between a husband and wife and offer procedures for coping with such friction. (SE)
Descriptors: Dating (Social), Expectation, Family Problems, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedSchultz, Beatrice – Small Group Behavior, 1986
Addresses the issue of the sensitivity of communicative variables for predicting leadership emergence in long-term, nonlaboratory groups. Findings suggest that communicative functions allow for the selection of potential group leaders. Additionally, leaders are chosen for their positive qualities but appear to embody negative values as well.…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Group Dynamics, Guidance, Identification (Psychology)
Peer reviewedGreene, Les R.; And Others – Small Group Behavior, 1981
Studied the gender-linked reactions of small groups to co-leadership situations. Results showed female co-leaders at a group relations conference for college students could be liked, but they were not perceived as having task relevant attributes. Group members' associations to gender were more powerful than associations of formal authority. (JAC)
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Groups, Leadership Styles, Power Structure
