Small Group Dynamics
Psy 607
Winter 1997
Week 2: Typologies & Dimensions of Group Structure:
- Chapter 3 from McGrath, Arrow & Berdahl (in preparation).
Groups as complex adaptive systems. Sage.
Week 3: No Class: MLK Day
Week 4: Group Formation and Composition
- McCollom, M. (1995). Group formation: Boundaries, leadership,
and culture. In J. Gillette & M. McCollom (Eds.), Groups
in context: A new perspective on group dynamics (pp. 34-48).
Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
- Chapter 4 from McGrath, Arrow & Berdahl (in preparation).
Groups as complex adaptive systems. Sage.
- Bettenhausen, K. L., & Murnighan, J. K. (1985). The emergence
of norms in competitive decision-making groups. Administrative
Science Quarterly, 30, 350-372.
Week 5: Group Development and Adaptation
- Arrow, H. (1997). Stability, bistability, and instability
in small group influence patterns. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 72, 75-85.
- Smith, C., & Gemmill, G. (1991). Change in the small group:
A dissipative structure perspective. Human Relations, 44,
697-716.
- Worchel, S. (1994). You can go home again: Returning group
research to the group context with an eye on developmental issues.
Small Group Research, 25, 205-223.
- Chapter 7 from McGrath, Arrow & Berdahl (in preparation).
Groups as complex adaptive systems. Sage.
Week 6: Group vs. Individual Decision-making & Problem-solving
- Davis, J. (1992). Some compelling intuitions about group consensus
decisions, theoretical and empirical research, and interpersonal
aggregation phenomena: Selected examples, 1950-1990. Organizational
Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 52, 3-38.
- Kerr, N., MacCoun R, & Kramer, G. (1996). Bias in judgment:
Comparing individuals and groups. Psychological Review,
103, 687-719.
- Orasanu, J. & Connolly T. (1993). The reinvention of decision
making. In Klein, G., Orasanu, J., Calderwood, R., & Zsambok,
C. Decision Making in Action: Models & Methods, pp
3-20. Ablex, Norwood, NJ.
- Ellsworth, P. C. & Mauro, R. (1997) "Juries"
Psychology and law excerpt. In Gilbert, D., Fiske, S.,
& Lindzey, G. (Eds) Handbook of Social Psychology,
Academic Press: New York.
- Hastie, R. (1993). Introduction. In R. Hastie (Ed.) Inside
the juror, pp 3-41. Cambridge University Press: New York,
NY.
Week 7: Decisions in crews, teams, and task forces
- Duffy, L. (1993). Team decision-making biases: An information-processing
perspective. In Klein, G., Orasanu, J., Calderwood, R., &
Zsambok, C. Decision Making in Action: Models & Methods,
pp 346-359. Ablex, Norwood, NJ.
- Orasanu, J. & Salas, E. (1993). Team decision making in
complex environments. In Klein, G., Orasanu, J., Calderwood, R.,
& Zsambok, C. Decision Making in Action: Models &
Methods, pp 327-345. Ablex, Norwood, NJ.
- Lipshitz, R. (1993). Converging themes in the study of decision
making in realistic settings. In Klein, G., Orasanu, J., Calderwood,
R., & Zsambok, C. Decision Making in Action: Models &
Methods, pp 103-137. Ablex, Norwood, NJ.
- Baron, R., Kerr, N., Miller, N. (1992). Group decision-making.
In Baron, R., Kerr, N., & Miller, N. Group processes, group
decision, group action. Brooks/Cole: Pacific Grove, CA.
Week 8: Communication, Technology, & Culture
- Armstrong, David J., & Cole, Paul (1996): Managing distances
and differences in geographically distributed work groups. In
Susan E. Jackson & Marian N. Ruderman (Eds.), Work team
diversity: Paradigms and perspectives. Washington, DC: American
Psychological Association.
- Kiesler, S., & Sproull, S. (1992). Group decision making
and communication technology. Organizational Behavior and Human
Decision Processes, 52, 96-123.
Week 9: Culture continued
- Triandis, H. C. (1988). Cross-cultural contributions to theory
in social psychology. In M. H. Bond (Ed.) The Cross-Cultural
Challenge to Social Psychology, pp 122-140.
- Messick, D. (1988). On the limitations of cross-cultural research
in social psychology. In M. H. Bond (Ed.) The Cross-Cultural
Challenge to Social Psychology, pp 41-47.
- Mann, L. (1980). Cross-cultural studies of small groups. In
Trinadis, H. (Ed.) Handbook of Cross-cultural Psychology,
pp 155-210. Allyn & Bacon: Boston, MA.
- Fiske, A. (1992). The four elementary forms of sociality:
Framework for a unified theory of social relations. Psychological
Review, 99 .689-723.
Week 10: Group Metamorphosis and Dissolution
- Chapter 8 from McGrath, Arrow & Berdahl (in preparation).
Groups as complex adaptive systems. Sage.