The significance/importance of relationships and connection of women in working through emotional distress and building personal empowerment is illustrated in the process model. The group process model of empowerment draws from both the current theories of women's psychological development and social interaction theory in illustrating the process…

Most of the research on bargaining has focused on individuals bargaining against other individuals. This paper discusses two experiments in which the bargaining processes and outcomes of bargaining teams were compared to those of individual bargainers. Individuals bargained against a single other in the first experiment, while a two-person team…

The purpose was to determine the effect of group size on both the total and the average per person fluency, flexibility, and originality of responses to problem solving tasks. One hundred sixty-three college juniors and seniors were assigned at random to groups of one, three, six, or twelve members. All groups were given identical instructions to…

Examines the hypothesis that women are more easily influenced than men by reviewing the literature on persuasion and conformity research. Persuasion research and conformity studies not involving group pressure show scant empirical support for sex differences. For group pressure conformity research, a substantial minority of studies support the…

This paper develops a conceptual model of the crisis-decision process, focusing on links susceptible to emergence of pathologies, and proposes preventive measures to increase the coping abilities of decision units. (Author)

An experimental paradigm is proposed for investigating interpersonal conflicts under conditions of intergroup competition. Two alternative models are proposed and their testable implications are derived and discussed. The effects of predecisional communication are examined and several extensions of the basic paradigm are outlined. (Author/LMO)

Discusses three studies stemming from an investigation designed to demonstrate that group decision-making performance is contingent on the satisfaction of four functional requirements. Claims the studies provide further support for the functional perspective. (JAD)

This elaboration and critique is the final article in a four-part series that presents the empirical foundation, parameters, and applications of a multidimensional model for organizing research on group psychotherapeutic process. (Author)

Reviews Bale's view on relations between instrumental and expressive structures and ensuing work on legitimacy of instrumental structure. Conceptualizes this legitimacy in terms of integration of distribution of members' skills and instrumental structure. Discusses Bale's conception of primary and secondary differentiation and inequality…

Illustrates the major dimensions of small group members' interpersonal perceptions using the repertory grid technique. Elicited dimensions in the initial and middle stages in a therapeutic and comparison group. Related a variant of the accepting-rejecting dimension to independently derived personality measures. Contrasts results for the two…

Describes a practical conceptualization of group process and management, titled the TRAC model (tasking, relating, acquiring, contacting), which takes into consideration the changing nature of group life. (Author)

Presents problems associated with process analysis with a specific focus on definitional and methodological concerns. Discusses the need for a comprehensive system that will help researchers to separate and comprehend the individual parts of a group and their relationship to the whole group. (Author/LLL)

Describes selected rules that may be abstracted from discussions in a given natural group, in this case, a nursing home admissions board. Suggested that to comprehend group structure, investigators must move beyond the internal units of conversation and consider conversational behavior in the larger context of an ethnographic present. (LLL)