Group
Influence: Books, Chapters and Articles
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Book Chapters
Jost, J.T., & Elsbach, K. (2001). How status and power differences erode personal and social identities at work: A system justification critique of organizational applications of social identity theory. In M.A. Hogg & D.J. Terry (Eds.), Social identity processes in organizational contexts (pp. 181-196). Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis. [added 2/28/06]
Wegner, D. M. (1986). Transactive memory: A contemporary analysis of the group mind. In B. Mullen & G. R. Goethals (Eds.), Theories of group behavior (pp. 185-208). New York: Springer-Verlag.
Articles
Beilock, S. L., & Carr, T. H. (2001). On the fragility of skilled performance: What governs choking under pressure? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 701-725.
Blair, I.V., & Jost, J.T. (2003). Exit, loyalty, and collective action among workers in a simulated business environment: Interactive effects of group identification and boundary permeability. Social Justice Research, 16, 95-108. [added 2/28/06]
Blascovich, J., Mendes, W. B., Hunter, S. & Salomon, K. (1999). Social facilitation as challenge and threat. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 68-77.
Cohen, F., Solomon, S., Maxfield, M,. Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J. (2004). Fatal attraction: The effects of mortality salience on evaluations of charasmatic, task-oriented and relationship-oriented leaders. Psychological Science, 15, 846-851. [added 7/6/05]
Haines, E.L., & Jost, J.T. (2000). Placating the powerless: Effects of legitimate and illegitimate explanation on affect, memory, and stereotyping. Social Justice Research, 13, 219-236. [added 2/28/06]
Hofmann, W., & Windschitl, P. D. (2008). Judging a group from sampling members: How the subdivision of a minority affects its perceived size and influence. Journal of Social Psychology, 148, 91-104.
Koslowski, S. W. J. & Ilgen, D. R. (2006). Enhancing the effectiveness of work groups and teams. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 7, 77-124. [added 7/06/07]
Krizan, Z., & Baron, R.S. (2007). Group polarization and choice-dilemmas: How important is self-categorization? European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 191-291.
Kruger, J., Windschitl, P. D., Burrus, J., Fessel, F., & Chambers, J. R. (2008). On the rational side of egocentrism in social comparisons. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 220-232.
Mendes, W. B., Blascovich, J., Major, B. & Seery, M. D. (2001). Challenge and threat during upward and downward social comparisons. European Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 477-479.
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Plous, S. (1995). A comparison of strategies for reducing interval overconfidence in group judgments. Journal of Applied Psychology, 80, 443-454. [added 2/14/05]
Poortvliet, P.M., Janssen, O., Van Yperen, N.W., & Van de Vliert, E. (2007). Achievement goals and interpersonal behavior: How mastery and performance goals shape information exchange. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1435-1447. [added 11/20/07]
Rose, J. P. & Windschitl, P. D. (2008). How egocentrism and optimism change in response to feedback in repeated competitions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 105, 201-220.
Triplett, Norman. (1897). "The Dynamogenic Factors in Pacemaking and Competition". American Journal of Psychology, 9, 507-533.
Van Vugt, M. (in press). Why do we sacrifice for our leaders? The Psychologist. [added 3/1/05]
Van Vugt, M., & Hart, C. M. (2004). Social identity as social glue: The origins of group loyalty. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 585-598. [added 3/1/05]
Van Vugt, M., Jepson, S., Hart, C., & De Cremer, D. (2004) Autocratic leadership in social dilemmas: A threat to group stability. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 1-13. [added 3/1/05]
Weaver, K., Garcia, S. M., Schwarz, N., & Miller, D. T. (2007). Inferring the popularity of an opinion from its familiarity: A repetitive voice can sound like a chorus. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 821-833. [added 7/14/07]
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