scholarly journals Therapeutic groups via video teleconferencing and the impact on group cohesion

mHealth ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 13-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Lopez ◽  
Brian Rothberg ◽  
Emily Reaser ◽  
Sarah Schwenk ◽  
Rachel Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Group Cohesion ◽  
Video Teleconferencing ◽  
Therapeutic Groups ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Ethnicity and Conflict: An Empirical Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 1310-1342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Esteban ◽  
Laura Mayoral ◽  
Debraj Ray
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Group Cohesion ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Ethnic Distribution ◽  
Conflict Intensity ◽  
Country Specific

We examine empirically the impact of ethnic divisions on conflict, by using a specification based on Esteban and Ray (2011). That theory links conflict intensity to three indices of ethnic distribution: polarization, fractionalization, and the Gini-Greenberg index. The empirical analysis verifies that these distributional measures are significant correlates of conflict. These effects persist as we introduce country-specific measures of group cohesion and of the importance of public goods, and combine them with the distributional measures exactly as described by the theory. (JEL D63, D74, J15, O15, O17)

scholarly journals The Impact of Interpersonal Trust on Group Cohesion: An empirical attestation among Scientists in R&D organizations

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tessla Arakal ◽  
Dr.Sebastian Rupert Mampilly
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Interpersonal Trust ◽  
Group Cohesion ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Total Field ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
Degree Of Confidence ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Trust is the degree of confidence the individual partners have in the reliability and integrity of each other and lack of it can undermine almost any other developmental effort .In today’s world of uncertainty , interpersonal trust is an imperative concept which has to be probed inorder to reap its benefits. Interpersonal trust implicitly means that the probability that one party will perform an action that is beneficial or atleast not detrimental to us is high enough for us to consider engaging in some form of cooperation with the party. Trust is both the specific expectation that another’s action will be beneficial rather than detrimental and the generalized ability to take for granted, to take under trust, a vast array of features of the social order. The second concept discussed in this paper is group cohesion. Group cohesion refers to the member’s attraction to the group. It is the total field of forces which act on members to remain in the group and my research on the concept illuminate this verity. This study is based on primary data collected from 172 scientists working in a nationalized Research and Development organization in central Kerala .The survey conducted during the last quarter of 2015, is expected to enlighten the linkage between interpersonal trust as the predictor and group cohesion as the outcome. The realistic and the pragmatic findings outlined in this paper can be guidelines to harness, employee’s trust in turn strengthening the group leading to better response, energy and enterprise.

Influence of Group Cohesion and Information Sharing on Effectiveness of Design Review

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Wetmore ◽  
Joshua D. Summers
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Group Decision Making ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Group Cohesion ◽  
Design Issues ◽  
Design Review ◽  
Factorial Design Of Experiments ◽  
Collaborative Activities ◽  
The Impact

Research into group decision-making suggests that, dependent on the information distributed prior to a group discussion, the decision and discussion content can be predicted. While the impact to group decision-making has been studied, its impact on collaborative activities such as design review has not been well investigated. A full factorial design of experiments (3×3, DOE) is conducted to investigate the influence of group cohesion and the awareness of the presence of unshared information among group members on design review effectiveness. The results suggest that awareness may have an effect on locating design issues by representation, functional group domain, and the total amount of design issues located.

scholarly journals Observing grooming promotes affiliation in Barbary macaques

2018 ◽  
Vol 285 (1893) ◽  
pp. 20181964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliette M. Berthier ◽  
Stuart Semple
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Matched Control ◽  
Control Period ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Group Cohesion ◽  
Barbary Macaques ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Relaxing Effect

Observing friendly social interactions makes people feel good and, as a result, then act in an affiliative way towards others. Positive visual contagion of this kind is common in humans, but whether it occurs in non-human animals is unknown. We explored the impact on female Barbary macaques of observing grooming, a behaviour that physiological and behavioural studies indicate has a relaxing effect on the animals involved. We compared females' behaviour between two conditions: after observing conspecifics groom, and in a matched control period. We found that observing grooming was associated with reduced behavioural indicators of anxiety, suggesting that seeing others groom is, in itself, relaxing. Observing grooming was also associated with a shorter latency to becoming involved in a grooming bout (and higher likelihood both of initiating that bout and being the groomer rather than groomee), and with elevated rates of other affiliative behaviours. These results provide evidence for positive visual contagion; this phenomenon may contribute fundamentally to group cohesion not just in this species, but also in the many mammal and bird species where grooming occurs. Our study highlights the importance of exploring social behaviour beyond the level of the interacting individuals, within the broader social context where it occurs.

Measuring Change

2016 ◽  
pp. 104-113
Author(s):  
Tania Lecomte ◽  
Claude Leclerc ◽  
Til Wykes
Keyword(s):  
Coping Skills ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Group Cohesion ◽  
Cognitive Behavior ◽  
Therapist Competence ◽  
Measuring Change ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Post Therapy ◽  
Over Time

The success of cognitive behavior therapy in general, as well as CBTp, stems in great part from demonstrating changes in symptoms over time, with measures showing improvements between pretherapy and both post-therapy and follow-up. This chapter proposes measures that can be used quickly and efficiently in a clinical setting to demonstrate the impact of the group CBTp. Measures specific to CBT for psychosis such as the CHOICE, as well as measures of concepts that have shown improvements following CBTp, such as symptoms, self-esteem, coping skills, social support, self-stigma, and social functioning, are described. Other measures of interest to assessing processes in therapy, such as alliance with therapists, group cohesion, participation within the group, and measures of treatment fidelity or therapist competence are also suggested.

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF TRUST ON THE PERFORMANCE AND STATISFACTION OF CO-OPERATIVE MEMBERS AT THE ’PAPRIKAKERTÉSZ’ PRODUCER ORGANISATION

2017 ◽  
Vol XIX (2) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Zsolt Baranyai ◽  
Zoltan Kovacs ◽  
Arpad Papp-Vary
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Models ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Group Cohesion ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Cooperative Group ◽  
Agricultural Marketing ◽  
Cognitive Dimension ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Affective Dimensions

The paper examines the impact of trust in an agricultural marketing cooperative. The aim is to explore how the trust among members and between members and management affect the commitment of members towards the cooperative (group cohesion) and their satisfaction with the cooperative. Trust is examined from two dimensions: cognitive and affective. Our results have clearly proved that trust has a positive impact on group cohesion and satisfaction. According to the experiences, however, the impact of examined dimensions of trust is differentiated: the statistical models regarded the impact of affective dimensions on group cohesion and members’ satisfaction more important than the impact of cognitive dimension.

scholarly journals The impact of individual perceptual and cognitive factors on collective states in a data-driven fish school model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weijia Wang ◽  
Ramon Escobedo ◽  
Stephane Sanchez ◽  
Clement Sire ◽  
Zhangang Han ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Group Cohesion ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Minimal Level ◽  
Interaction Range ◽  
Fish School ◽  
Collective Movements ◽  
School Model ◽  
The Impact

In moving animal groups, social interactions play a key role in the ability of individuals to achieve coordinated motion. However, a large number of environmental and cognitive factors are able to modulate the expression of these interactions and the characteristics of the collective movements that result from these interactions. Here, we use a data-driven fish school model (Calovi et al., 2018; Lei et al., 2020) to quantitatively investigate the impact of perceptual and cognitive factors on coordination and collective swimming patterns. The model describes the interactions involved in the coordination of burst-and-coast swimming in groups of Hemigrammus rhodostomus. We perform a comprehensive investigation of the respective impacts of two interactions strategies between fish based on the selection of the most or the two most influential neighbors, of the range and intensity of social interactions, of the intensity of individual random behavioral fluctuations, and of the group size, on the ability of groups of fish to coordinate their movements. We find that fish are able to coordinate their movements when they interact with their most or two most influential neighbors, provided that a minimal level of attraction between fish exist to maintain group cohesion. A minimal level of alignment is also required to allow the formation of schooling and milling. However, increasing the strength of social interactions does not necessarily enhance group cohesion and coordination. When attraction and alignment strengths are too high, or when the heading random fluctuations are too large, schooling and milling can no longer be maintained and the school switches to a swarming phase. Increasing the interaction range between fish has a similar impact on collective dynamics as increasing the strengths of attraction and alignment. Finally, we find that coordination and schooling occurs for a wider range of attraction and alignment strength in small group sizes.

scholarly journals Computational and robotic modeling reveal parsimonious combinations of interactions between individuals in schooling fish

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liu Lei ◽  
Ramón Escobedo ◽  
Clément Sire ◽  
Guy Theraulaz
Keyword(s):  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Collective Motion ◽  
Group Cohesion ◽  
Behavioral Model ◽  
Minimal Amount ◽  
Motion Patterns ◽  
Physical Constraints ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

AbstractCoordinated motion and collective decision-making in fish schools result from complex interactions by which individuals integrate information about the behavior of their neighbors. However, little is known about how individuals integrate this information to take decisions and control their movements. Here, we combine experiments with computational and robotic approaches to investigate the impact of different strategies for a fish to interact with its neighbors on collective swimming in groups of rummy-nose tetra (Hemigrammus rhodostomus). By means of a data-based agent model describing the interactions between pairs ofH. rhodostomus(Caloviet al., 2018), we show that the simple addition of the pairwise interactions with two neighbors quantitatively reproduces the collective behavior observed in groups of five fish. Increasing the number of interacting neighbors does not significantly improve the simulation results. Remarkably, we find that groups remain cohesive and polarized even when each agent only interacts with only one of its neighbors: the one that has the strongest contribution to the heading variation of the focal agent. However, group cohesion is lost when each agent only interacts with its nearest neighbor. We then investigate by means of a swarm robotic platform the collective motion in groups of five robots. Our platform combines the implementation of the fish behavioral model and an engineering-minded control system to deal with real-world physical constraints. We find that swarms of robots are able to reproduce the behavioral patterns observed in groups of five fish when each robot only interacts with its neighbor having the strongest effect on its heading variation, whereas increasing the number of interacting neighbors does not significantly improve the group coordination. Overall, our results suggest that fish have to acquire only a minimal amount of information about their environment to coordinate their movements when swimming in groups.Author SummaryHow do fish combine and integrate information from multiple neighbors when swimming in a school? What is the minimum amount of information about their environment needed to coordinate their motion? To answer these questions, we combine experiments with computational and robotic modeling to test several hypotheses about how individual fish could combine and integrate the information on the behavior of their neighbors when swimming in groups. Our research shows that, for both simulated agents and robots, using the information of two neighbors is sufficient to qualitatively reproduce the collective motion patterns observed in groups of fish. Remarkably, our results also show that it is possible to obtain group cohesion and coherent collective motion over long periods of time even when individuals only interact with their most influential neighbor, that is, the one that exerts the most important effect on their heading variation.

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