scholarly journals Physiological linkage among successful high-status women in international teams

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine R Thorson ◽  
Oana D Dumitru ◽  
Tessa V West
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Physiological Response ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Female Group ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
High Status ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Subsequent Time ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Physiological Linkage

Abstract In contemporary society, decisions are often made by teams whose members represent different nationalities and genders. In the current work, participants from 55 countries formed groups of 3 to 4 people to select one of the 5 firms in a mock firm search. In all groups, one woman was randomly assigned to have higher status than her groupmates; she was also surreptitiously instructed to persuade her group to select one (randomly assigned) firm. We measured cardiac interbeat intervals for participants throughout the decision-making process to assess physiological linkage—the degree to which a ‘sender’s’ physiological response predicts a ‘receiver’s’ physiological response at a subsequent time interval. On average, high-status women were successful at persuasion. The physiological responses of successful high-status women were also predicted by the responses of their female groupmates: stronger linkage to female group members during the task was associated with success at persuading the group. Successful high-status women were also perceived as more persuasive than others in the group. This work shows that the link between status and successful persuasion generalizes to women among heterogeneous international teams. It also suggests that attention to others—often associated with physiological linkage—may be useful in persuading others during decision-making.

scholarly journals Influencing the physiology and decisions of groups: Physiological linkage during group decision-making

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-159
Author(s):  
Katherine R. Thorson ◽  
Oana D. Dumitru ◽  
Wendy Berry Mendes ◽  
Tessa V. West
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Group Decision Making ◽  
Physiological Response ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Physiological Responses ◽  
High Status ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Physiological Linkage ◽  
To Come ◽  
Middle Status

Many of the most important decisions in our society are made within groups, yet we know little about how the physiological responses of group members predict the decisions that groups make. In the current work, we examine whether physiological linkage from “senders” to “receivers”—which occurs when a sender’s physiological response predicts a receiver’s physiological response—is associated with senders’ success at persuading the group to make a decision in their favor. We also examine whether experimentally manipulated status—an important predictor of social behavior—is associated with physiological linkage. In groups of 5, we randomly assigned 1 person to be high status, 1 low status, and 3 middle status. Groups completed a collaborative decision-making task that required them to come to a consensus on a decision to hire 1 of 5 firms. Unbeknownst to the 3 middle-status members, high- and low-status members surreptitiously were told to each argue for different firms. We measured cardiac interbeat intervals of all group members throughout the decision-making process to assess physiological linkage. We found that the more receivers were physiologically linked to senders, the more likely groups were to make a decision in favor of the senders. We did not find that people were physiologically linked to their group members as a function of their fellow group members’ status. This work identifies physiological linkage as a novel correlate of persuasion and highlights the need to understand the relationship between group members’ physiological responses during group decision-making.

scholarly journals Perspektif Baru Groupthink; Perbedaan Tingkat Pendidikan Dalam Proses Pengambilan Keputusan Kelompok

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 251
Author(s):  
Marlinda Irwanti ◽  
Deddy Muharman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Formal Group ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Female Group ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Interesting Point ◽  
Group Members ◽  
The Difference

This research is motivated by the phenomenon of groups of female who usually frequent and visible to see from even elementary schools until university. The interesting point of this research is, researchers interested in analyzing this phenomenon with questions, whether the difference in education level affects the decision-making process in the female group, adding the complexity of the pre-existing nature within the group members. This study uses interviews and focus group discussions to gather data that are expected to explain the above phenomena by using assumptions and symptoms of Groupthink theory itself. The results showed that there was no difference in the decision-making process of the different groups of the educational level, and other interesting findings that Groupthink does not occur in these groups. This happens because these groups did not shut down their point of view from outside influences, and also the absence of a formal group leader, and the persistence of high mutual understanding of his fellow group members.

scholarly journals Development of an Information Model for the Personality’s Social Portrait Formation Using OSINT Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mykhailo Mozhaiev ◽  
Pavlo Buslov
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
Information Model ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Source Information ◽  
Information Models ◽  
Behavioural Patterns ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Members

The results of the development of an information model for the personality’s social portrait formation are presented. The modelling has been carried out using OSINT technology that is the technology of legal obtaining and using open source information. In the result of the analysis, it has been found out that the social portrait is a heterogeneous semantic network consisting of personalized data. It has been defined that people organize formal and official communities of various orientations and the number of such communities associated with a particular person is practically unlimited. When formalizing the decision-making process, the concept of a group social portrait (GSP) has been introduced, which takes into account the community’s social tendencies united by certain common properties, group members' interpersonal interactions and their behavioural patterns. The obtained information models of personal and group social portraits let to take into account all the main properties of the objects under study, their tonality and significance, as well as to conduct an analysis of the implicit dependencies determination. The next step is to move on to considering the diversity of the digital social environment elements.

Influence of Status on Group Interaction Processes: Electronic Mail versus Face-To-Face Discussions

1987 ◽  
Vol 31 (12) ◽  
pp. 1355-1359
Author(s):  
Jayanti Balasubramaniam
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Electronic Mail ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
High Status ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Interaction Processes ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Task Oriented ◽  
Formal Status

Experimental studies conducted by Siegel et al. (1986) revealed that members of decision making groups participated more equally in computer-mediated discussions than in face-to-face discussions. These studies dealt with group of peers. The purpose of this study was to test whether computer media has an equalizing affect on participation of members of different formal statuses. The experimental design and procedure were similar to the previous study. The main difference was that each group included one high status member and three low status members and all members were of the same gender, in order to avoid effect of diffusion status. The experiment showed that, as expected, the computer media had equalizing affect on participation of group members of different formal status. While in face-to-face discussions, high status members initiated discussion more frequently, spoke more, and were more task-oriented than low status members, in computer-mediated discussions, these measures did not differ significantly for members of different statuses.

Culture and Anonymity in GSS Meetings

2011 ◽  
pp. 872-878
Author(s):  
Moez Limayem ◽  
Adel Hendaoui
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Group Performance ◽  
Group Support Systems ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Electronic Brainstorming ◽  
Group Settings ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
Process Structure

Managers spend a considerable part of their work time in meetings participating in group decision making. Group support systems (GSSs) are adopted in a variety of group settings?from within-organization team to multi-organization collaboration teams (Ackermann, Franco, Gallupe, & Parent, 2005)?to aid the decision-making process (Briggs, Nunamaker, & Sprague, 1998). A key characteristic of GSSs is anonymity, which improves various aspects of group performance, including improving group participation and communication, objectively evaluating ideas, and enhancing group productivity and the decision-making process (Nunamaker, Dennis, Valacich, Vogel, & George, 1991; Pinsonneault & Heppel, 1997; Postmes & Lea, 2000). Anonymity, as a distinct aspect of GSSs, was expected to increase productivity by reducing the level of social or production blocking, increasing the number of interpersonal exchanges, and reducing the probability of any one member dominating the meeting (Newby, Soutar, & Watson, 2003). For example, Barreto and Ellemers (2002) manipulated two aspects of anonymity separately: visibility of respondents (i.e., participants could or could not see who the other group members were) and visibility of responses (participants could or could not see the responses given by other group members). Results show that when group identification is low, anonymity manipulations affect group members’ effort. Similarly, in their experiment, Reinig and Mejias (2004) found that anonymous groups produced more critical comments than identified groups did at the group level of analysis. Numerous empirical findings have suggested that the use of anonymity and process structure in electronic brainstorming (EBS) generally promotes a positive effect on the number of ideas generated (Jessup, Connolly, & Galegher, 1990; Gallupe, Bastianutti, & Cooper, 1991) and quality of ideas achieved in decision making (Zigurs & Buckland, 1998). However, the anonymity function inherent in multiworkstation GSSs has been found to heighten conflict as members tend to communicate more aggressively because they tend to be more critical (Connolly, Jessup, & Valacich, 1990; Jessup, Connolly, & Tansik, 1990; Valacich, Jessup, Dennis, & Nunamaker, 1992), to have no effects on inhibition (Valacich, Dennis, & Connoly, 1994; Valacich et al., 1992), to increase group polarization (Sia, Tan, & Wei, 2002), and to have no effects on group performance (Valacich et al., 1994). Other studies show that, in terms of effectiveness, nominal brainstorming may be equal to (Gallupe et al., 1991; Cooper, Gallupe, Pollard, & Cadsby, 1998; Barki & Pinsonneault, 2001) or sometimes less than (Valacich et al., 1994; Dennis & Valacich, 1993) electronic brainstorming, indicating that at least as far as laboratory studies are concerned, empirical investigations have been inconclusive.

Conditional Choice

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Moody
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Decision Rules ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Sources Of Resistance ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Conditional Decision

This article examines the dynamics of conditional choice as a mechanism for explaining social action, with particular emphasis on identifying model frameworks for the analysis of the trajectory and outcome of conditional decision-making processes. It begins with an overview of conditional decision-making, including key words and concepts, followed by a discussion of conditional decision rules and initial states of activity and how they shape the basic trajectory and outcome of a conditional decision-making process. It then considers possible sources of resistance to influence, focusing on the ways unconditional actors pull all other group members towards their position and how individual variation in resistance to influence can stop a process from reaching complete conformity. It also explores patterns of social interaction and how they work in combination with resistance to influence to account for variation in activity among individuals or groups, paying attention to the contingent effect of local networks.

Die mündliche Erklärung zur Abstimmung gemäß § 31 Absatz 1 GOBT – eine parlamentarische Wundertüte mit Potenzial?

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-887
Author(s):  
Björn-Christian Kleih
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Verbal Explanation ◽  
Party Position ◽  
Rules Of Procedure ◽  
Group Members ◽  
German Bundestag ◽  
Member Of Parliament ◽  
Party Group

According to the Rules of Procedure of the German Bundestag (”GOBT”), every Member of Parliament is granted a five minutes’ verbal explanation of vote . It is granted for nearly every kind of vote in the House . The verbal explanation is often considered a privilege to MPs going against the position taken by their group . Yet, it is also used to confirm the party position and it is abused to continue already closed debates . In either case, they can be a grab bag for both parliament’s plenum and its president; the verbal explanation’s content is only revealed when the explanation is given . A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the explanations given in the Bundestag shows that explanations from dissenters contribute quantitatively, but not to a large extent . While members of the coalition more often declare to go against their parliamentary party group, members of the opposition tend to confirm the line of their respective party . When used to reveal personal implications in the decision‑making process, the verbal explanation is meaningful and widely accepted .

scholarly journals Participatory Democracy in Reforming the Way of Political Organization of Contemporary Society - European Models

2018 ◽  
pp. 122-130
Author(s):  
Valentina Ursu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Process Development ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Civic Culture ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Contemporary Reality ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

This article analyzes the phenomenon of participatory democracy and the impact of community norms on the process of democratization in the context of reforming the way of political organization of contemporary society. The importance of treating such a subject is revealed by the fact that a series of events from a complex, dynamic and contemporary reality facing contemporary society are drawn. As a result of the investigation, the author concludes that the theoretical conceptions focused on participatory democracy provide support to the society in the conditions of transition to the democratic model, by the development of conditions of social affirmation, participation in the decision making process, development of policies that affect their life, especially directly and not through their representatives elected (as in the case of representative democracy). Active citizenship, generated by civic culture, and participatory democracy organize the principles of claiming and securing the rights of the poor and the excluded, the formation of efficient national systems that sufficiently reflect the particularities of contemporary processes. Keywords: participatory democracy, society, transition, decision-making process, citizen

scholarly journals Decision Making, Stress Assessed by Physiological Response and Virtual Reality Stimuli

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-103
Author(s):  
Daniel Alfonso Botero Rosas ◽  
Oscar Leonardo Mosquera Dussán ◽  
Carlos German Trujillo Rojas ◽  
Daniel Guzmán Pérez ◽  
Jhonnatan Eduardo Zamudio Palacios ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Physiological Response ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Autonomous Nervous System ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Induce Stress ◽  
Physiological Variables ◽  
Training And Support

Many decisions must be made under stress; therefore, stress and decision-making are intrinsically related not only at the behavioral level but also at the neural level. Additionally, virtual reality tools have been proposed as a method to induce stress in the laboratory. This review focuses on answering the following research question: Does stress assessed by physiological variables of a subject under virtual reality stimuli increase the chances of error in decision-making? The reviewed studies were consulted in the following databases: PubMed, IEEE Xplore, and Science Direct. The analysis of the consulted literature indicates that the stress induced in the laboratory using virtual reality tools and the physiological response of the central and autonomous nervous system are complementary subjects and allow the design of training and support systems for the decision-making process

AAC Decision-Making and Mobile Technology: Points to Ponder

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Abbott ◽  
Debby McBride
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Ipod Touch ◽  
Feature Match

The purpose of this article is to outline a decision-making process and highlight which portions of the augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) evaluation process deserve special attention when deciding which features are required for a communication system in order to provide optimal benefit for the user. The clinician then will be able to use a feature-match approach as part of the decision-making process to determine whether mobile technology or a dedicated device is the best choice for communication. The term mobile technology will be used to describe off-the-shelf, commercially available, tablet-style devices like an iPhone®, iPod Touch®, iPad®, and Android® or Windows® tablet.

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