Minority Influence in Interacting Groups: The Impact of Newcomers

Rebels in Groups: Dissent, Deviance, Difference and Defiance

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 73-92

  Levine, John M ^a,c,d,e   Choi, Hoon Seok ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^d American Psychological Society   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Group socialisation theory analysing how groups respond to new members; Group socialisation theory conditions, under which new members might produce change; Group's strategy choice and prior performance; Groups, not static entities changing in dynamic ways over time; Impact of new members' behavioural style opportunity threat implications for group; Minority influence in interacting groups and impact of newcomers; New member's behavioural style and group's prior performance; New members' ability to exert influence shedding light on majority minority relations in interacting groups; New members, as influence recipients; New members, relatively passive recipients of influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886487766     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390841.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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