Supplemental Material for Group Interactions and Time: Using Sequential Analysis to Study Group Dynamics in Project Meetings

Gendered expectations are imported from the larger culture to permeate small-group discussions, creating conversational inequalities. Conversational roles also emerge from the negotiated order of group interactions to reflect, reinforce, and occasionally challenge these cultural patterns. The authors provide a new examination of conversational overlaps and interruptions. They show how negotiated conversational roles lead a status distinction (gender) to shape conversational inequality. The authors use a mixed-effects logit model to analyze turn taking as it unfolds in task-group discussions, focusing on how previous behavior shapes current interaction. They then use these conversational roles to examine how locally produced interaction orders mediate the relationship between gender and interruptions. The authors find a more complex process than previous research has revealed. Gender influences the history of being interrupted early in an interaction, which changes the ongoing behavioral patterns to create a cumulative conversational disadvantage. The authors then discuss the implications of these group dynamics for interventions.

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Trust and reciprocity in inter-individual versus inter-group interactions: The effects of social influence, group dynamics, and perspective biases

Experimental Economics ◽

10.1007/s10683-006-7051-x ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 179-180 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Fei Song

Keyword(s):

Social Influence ◽

Group Dynamics ◽

Group Interactions ◽

Trust And Reciprocity

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Well, Now What Do We Do? Wait . . .: A Group Process Analysis of Meeting Lateness

International Journal of Business Communication ◽

10.1177/2329488417696725 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 57 (3) ◽

pp. 302-326 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock ◽

Joseph A. Allen

Keyword(s):

Group Dynamics ◽

Group Process ◽

Sequential Analysis ◽

Temporal Dynamics ◽

Group Communication ◽

Process Analysis ◽

Communication Patterns ◽

Conservation Of Resources ◽

Group Problem Solving ◽

Communication Processes

Workplace meetings start late all the time for a number of reasons. When participants are kept waiting, this can be experienced as a drain of personal resources. In this article, we integrate perspectives from conservation of resources theory, individual goal setting, group problem solving, and temporal dynamics to derive predictions regarding individual attendees’ meeting experiences and behavioral group communication patterns under conditions of meeting lateness. We conducted an experiment using 32 student groups in which 16 groups started their meeting on time, while 16 started their meeting 10 minutes late. We found that late meetings were less satisfying than on time meetings. Using videotaped meeting interactions, we analyzed the group dynamics at the micro-level of conversational utterances. Controlling for meeting duration, groups in the lateness condition showed substantially less solution-focused communication overall, less idea elaboration, less in-depth problem descriptions, and fewer socioemotional support statements than groups who started on time. Furthermore, lag sequential analysis revealed distinctly different temporal communication patterns. We discuss research implications for understanding meeting experiences through a conservation of resources lens as well as practical implications for managing group communication processes in workplace meetings.

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Jury Tensions: Applying Communication Theories and Methods to Study Group Dynamics

Small Group Research ◽

10.1177/1046496410369564 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

pp. 495-502

Author(s):

Laurie R. Weingart ◽

Gergana Todorova

Keyword(s):

Group Dynamics ◽

Study Group

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Studi etnografi pendidikan pada SMA Negeri 6 Yogyakarta: ketahanan dan ketidaktahanan belajar kelompok

Jurnal Inovasi Teknologi Pendidikan ◽

10.21831/jitp.v4i2.11771 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 140

Author(s):

Novi Trilisiana ◽

Sugeng Bayu Wahyono

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Group Dynamics ◽

Minority Groups ◽

Study Groups ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Study Group ◽

Mutual Trust ◽

Group Contributions ◽

Mutual Cooperation ◽

Depth Interviews

Penelitian ini bertujuan mengungkapkan kontribusi ketahanan dan ketidaktahanan belajar kelompok siswa SMA Negeri 6 Yogyakarta. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif yang mengacu pada penelitian etnografi di sekolah. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui observasi terlibat, wawancara mendalam, dan dokumentasi. Data yang terkumpul dibuat ke dalam transkrip, pengkodean, serta pemunculan tema. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan konsep dinamika kelompok dan belajar kooperatif. Hasil penelitian ini mengidentifikasi adanya dua kondisi belajar kelompok, dimana minoritas kelompok siswa menunjukkan ketahanan sedangkan mayoritas menunjukkan ketidaktahanan. Ketahanan belajar kelompok dapat tercipta karena adanya kesadaran kolektif, saling percaya, saling bekerja sama, dan tanggung jawab antar anggota. Ketidaktahanan belajar kelompok dapat tercipta karena adanya egosentrisme, sekadar formalitas, saling bersaing, dan pragmatisme belajar. Semakin cepat terjadinya transformasi dari faktor yang melemahkan kelompok kepada kepentingan kelompok, semakin lama ketahanan belajar kelompok, dan begitu sebaliknya.Kata kunci: etnografi, dinamika kelompok, ketahanan, ketidaktahanan, belajar kelompok ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF EDUCATION AT SMA NEGERI 6 YOGYAKARTA: THE DURABILITY AND NOT DURABILITY OF STUDY GROUPSAbstractThis article concerns a research aimed at revealing durability of study group contributions and contribution of the not durability of study groups at SMA Negeri 6 Yogyakarta. This study was qualitative research referring to the ethnography in school. The data were collected through participant observations, in-depth interviews, and documentation. The collected data were interpreted into transcript, coded, and thematized. The data were analyzed by using the concepts of group dynamics and cooperative learning. The results of the study identified two conditions of study groups that minority groups of students showed durable while the majority showed not durable. The durability of study groups could be created because there are a collective awareness, mutual trust, mutual cooperation and responsibility among the members. The not durability of study groups could be created because there are students’ egocentrism, formality, competing and pragmatism in learning. The faster the transformation from the factors that weaken the group to the benefit of the group, the longer durability study groups, and vice versaKeywords: ethnography, group dynamics, durability, not durability, study groups

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Reproductive success is predicted by social dynamics and kinship in managed animal populations

F1000Research ◽

10.12688/f1000research.8713.1 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

pp. 870

Author(s):

Saul J. Newman ◽

Simon Eyre ◽

Catherine H. Kimble ◽

Mauricio Arcos-Burgos ◽

Carolyn Hogg ◽

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Keyword(s):

Reproductive Success ◽

Group Dynamics ◽

Reproductive Output ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Breeding Programs ◽

Group Interactions ◽

Suricata Suricatta ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Animal Populations ◽

The Individual

Kin and group interactions are important determinants of reproductive success in many species. Their optimization could, therefore, potentially improve the productivity and breeding success of managed populations used for agricultural and conservation purposes. Here we demonstrate this potential using a novel approach to measure and predict the effect of kin and group dynamics on reproductive output in a well-known species, the meerkat Suricata suricatta. Variation in social dynamics predicts 30% of the individual variation in reproductive success of this species in managed populations, and accurately forecasts reproductive output at least two years into the future. Optimization of social dynamics in captive meerkat populations doubles their projected reproductive output. These results demonstrate the utility of a quantitative approach to breeding programs informed by social and kinship dynamics. They suggest that this approach has great potential for improvements in the management of social endangered and agricultural species.

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