Prelims
ISBN: 978-1-83797-477-1, eISBN: 978-1-83797-476-4
ISSN: 0882-6145
Publication date: 14 December 2023
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(2023), "Prelims", Kalkhoff, W., Thye, S.R. and Lawler, E.J. (Ed.) Advances in Group Processes (Advances in Group Processes, Vol. 40), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xiii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0882-614520230000040010
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Copyright © 2024 Will Kalkhoff, Shane R. Thye and Edward J. Lawler. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited
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Advances in Group Processes
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Advances in Group Processes
Series Coeditors: Edward J. Lawler and Shane R. Thye
Recent Volumes:
Volumes 1–17: | Edited by Edward J. Lawler |
Volume 18: | Edited by Edward J. Lawler and Shane R. Thye |
Volume 19: | Group Cohesion, Trust and Solidarity – Edited by Edward J. Lawler and Shane R. Thye |
Volume 20: | Power and Status – Edited by Shane R. Thye and John Skvoretz |
Volume 21: | Theory and Research on Human Emotions – Edited by Jonathan H. Turner |
Volume 22: | Social Identification in Groups – Edited by Shane R. Thye and Edward J. Lawler |
Volume 23: | Social Psychology of the Workplace – Edited by Shane R. Thye and Edward J. Lawler |
Volume 24: | Social Psychology of Gender – Edited by Shelley J. Correll |
Volume 25: | Justice – Edited by Karen A. Hegtvedt and Jody Clay-Warner |
Volume 26: | Altruism and Prosocial Behavior in Groups – Edited by Shane R. Thye and Edward J. Lawler |
Volumes 27–28: | Edited by Shane R. Thye and Edward J. Lawler |
Volume 29: | Edited by Will Kalkhoff, Shane R. Thye and Edward J. Lawler |
Volume 30: | Thirtieth Anniversary Edition – Edited by Shane R. Thye and Edward J. Lawler |
Volumes 31–38: | Edited by Shane R. Thye and Edward J. Lawler |
Volume 39: | Edited by Will Kalkhoff, Shane R. Thye and Edward J. Lawler |
Editorial Advisory Board
Jessica Collett
University of California, USA
Joseph Dippong
University of North Carolina, USA
Ashley Harrell
Duke University, USA
Karen Hegtvedt
Emory University, USA
Will Kalkhoff
Kent State University, USA
Jeff Lucas
University of Maryland, USA
Jennifer McLeer
University of Hartford, USA
Jane Sell
Texas A&M University, USA
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Advances in Group Processes Volume 40
Advances in Group Processes
Edited by
Will Kalkhoff
Kent State University, USA
Shane R. Thye
University of South Carolina, USA
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Edward J. Lawler
Cornell University, USA
United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China
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List of Contributors
Alison J. Bianchi | The University of Iowa, USA |
Kaitlin M. Boyle | University of South Carolina, USA |
Vincent Buskens | Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
Jessica L. Collett | UCLA, USA |
Joshua Doyle | Purdue University, USA |
Simon Friis | Harvard Business School, USA |
Kate Hawks | Emory University, USA |
Karen A. Hegtvedt | Emory University, USA |
Cayce Jamil | University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA |
Cathryn Johnson | Emory University, USA |
Yujia Lyu | The University of Iowa, USA |
Kayla D. R. Pierce | University of Notre Dame, USA |
Inga Popovaite | Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania |
Arnout van de Rijt | European University Institute, Italy |
Kimberly B. Rogers | Dartmouth College, USA |
Maria N. Scaptura | Virginia Tech, USA |
Philipp T. Schneider | Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan | MIT Sloan School of Management, USA |
Preface
Advances in Group Processes is a peer-reviewed annual volume that publishes theoretical analyses, reviews, and theory-based empirical chapters on group phenomena. This series adopts a broad conception of “group processes.” This includes work on groups ranging from the very small to the very large, and on classic and contemporary topics such as status, power, trust, justice, conflict, social influence, heuristics, identity, decision-making, intergroup relations, and social networks. Previous contributors have included scholars from diverse fields including sociology, psychology, political science, economics, business, philosophy, computer science, mathematics, and organizational behavior.
Several years ago, we added an editorial board to this series to broaden the review process and draw upon the collective expertise of some of the top scholars in the discipline. That board consists of Jessica Collett, Joseph Dippong, Ashley Harrell, Karen Hegtvedt, Will Kalkhoff, Jeff Lucas, Jennifer McLeer and Jane Sell. This group of scholars has made this series better and we are grateful for their service, guidance, and advice.
The first two chapters in this volume use affect control theory (ACT) to address important contemporary social problems. Collett and Pierce fill a gap in the literature on public perceptions of the police by using ACT to link these perceptions to political identity. Their use of ACT allows Collett and Pierce to capture perceptions indirectly, which mitigates response bias problems endemic to research on the police. A sample of 517 MTurk respondents read seven (bogus) headlines concerning different events, and the headlines varied in ambiguity. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses reveal the mechanisms by which readers interpret ambiguous headlines about the police and “fill in the gaps” to align their interpretations with preexisting political beliefs. The study sheds needed light on how political identity influences police perceptions, and it highlights how media coverage may worsen the related political divide and impede social change. Rogers, Boyle, and Scaptura use the affect control theory of self (ACT-Self) to examine another pressing social problem: mass shootings. Results from a qualitative autobiographical analysis as well as a survey study expose strained masculinity as a source of male self-inauthenticity that can lead to violent fantasies and actions. Importantly, the study highlights men's perceptions of women's feelings about them, accurate or not, as a “possible intervention point” for reducing mass violence.
The second section of this volume focuses on topics related to social exchange and influence. Joshua Doyle advances and tests a theory of “third order inference” and examines the relative power of group (second order) and cultural (third order) information about social trust on the decision to cooperate in a multi-actor public goods experiment. Unexpectedly, and contrary to findings from Correll et al.'s (2017) theory of status advantage in meritocratic settings, results reveal that manipulated knowledge of group members' supposed views about social trust in the immediate context (i.e., second order trust) “carried the day” and overwhelmed the influence of manipulated information about the social trust of “most other people” (i.e., third order cultural trust). Doyle raises several pressing questions to be sorted out in future research and discusses important practical implications for addressing the challenges of resolving uncertainty and inducing cooperation in modern, complex societies. Next, Friis and Zuckerman Sivan offer a theoretical analysis of reciprocity that builds on Leifer's theory of local action and improves upon it by offering a more general yet nuanced account of how givers employ “reverse bargaining” to construct a sense of debt in a receiver while simultaneously mitigating suspicion that they furtively desire a positive return on investment. The theory clarifies the role of reverse bargaining in social exchange and usefully synthesizes competing views of reciprocity in the literature. Turning to influence processes, Schneider, Buskens, and van de Rijt offer the first theoretical and empirical analysis of whether the type of decision being made (i.e., binary vs. continuous) affects the likelihood of optimal investment behavior in small, networked groups. Drawing on binary diffusion models and (continuous) models of opinion updating, they create an elegant model that compares binary and continuous decision-making. Contrary to predictions derived from simulations, results from a laboratory experiment lead the authors to conclude that whether a decision process is binary or continuous does not seem “critical.” Interestingly, though, they were able to improve the fit of their model by adjusting their simulations to reflect the noisier decision process of “real” human participants. By extending the model to apply to larger and more varied network types and lengthier time spans, this line of work could have important practical implications for addressing contemporary social problems, including people's reluctance to invest in pro-environmental behaviors.
The last three chapters in Volume 40 address questions related to status processes and status-based inequality. Using vignette methods, Hawks, Hegtvedt, and Johnson examine the gendered nature of subordinates' emotional responses to the behaviors of authorities in workplace settings. In general, and as expected, the enactment of “fair” behaviors by a manager, regardless of their gender, elicited reports of more positive (and less negative) emotional responses among workers. Hawks and her colleagues also find that impressions of “competence” and “warmth” link male versus female manager behaviors to positive emotional responses among employees in ways that reflect gender stereotypes, though the findings for negative emotions are more nuanced than expected. The study advances our understanding of how gender stereotypes contextualize subordinate responses to superordinate behaviors in ways that operate to sustain gender inequality at work. Next, Bianchi, Lyu, and Popovaite take a fresh look at the role of sentiments in status processes. To advance the debate about whether sentiments function as status characteristics or whether they alter/moderate status processes, Bianchi and her colleagues offer a “deep dive” into the most relevant theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues at stake, and they offer new, interdisciplinary insights that should serve to steer future research priorities. Finally, Cayce Jamil revisits Pugh and Wahrman's classic 1983 analysis of “Neutralizing Sexism in Mixed-Sex Groups.” He specifically explores the heretofore unanswered question of whether status interventions designed to reduce inequalities in task groups could have unintended negative consequences for group solidarity. Jamil's replication of Pugh and Wahrman's study did not produce a baseline difference in influence along gender lines; this time there was no difference to be neutralized. Furthermore, contrary to speculation by earlier researchers, the standardized status intervention employed by Jamil did not have negative consequences for solidarity. While further work remains to be done on the relationship between status and solidarity, Jamil's findings give us some confidence that status interventions do not solve one problem while creating another.
Will Kalkhoff, Shane R. Thye and Edward J. Lawler
Volume Co-Editors
- Prelims
- Chapter 1 Interpreting Events Involving Police: Liberals, Conservatives, and Moderates in the Face of Ambiguity
- Chapter 2 Through the Looking Glass: Self, Inauthenticity, and (Mass) Violence
- Chapter 3 The Effect of Cultural Trust in the Presence of Second Order Trust on Cooperation in a Behavioral Experiment
- Chapter 4 It's About Showing Good Faith, Not Avoiding Shows of Weakness: Reworking Leifer's “Local Action” to Build a Robust Theory of Reciprocity
- Chapter 5 The Diffusion of Binary Versus Continuous Behavior on Social Networks
- Chapter 6 Interactional Contexts of Workplace Inequality: Differential Emotional Responses to Men and Women in Authority Positions
- Chapter 7 Sentiments and Status: The Dyad? The Triad? Or Both?
- Chapter 8 Cohesion and Solidarity in Consistent and Inconsistent Status Structures
- Index