How Group Perception Affects What People Share and How People Feel: The Role of Entitativity and Epistemic Trust in the “Saying-Is-Believing” Effect

This research investigated how interpersonal communication with a large audience can influence communicators’ attitudes. Research on the saying-is-believing effect has shown that when an individual’s attitude is perceived in advance by a communicator, the communicator tunes the message to the person, which biases the communicator’s attitude toward the person’s attitude. In this study, we examined the conditions under which audience tuning and attitude bias can occur with audiences containing more than one individual. We manipulated communicators’ perceived group entity for a large audience and the audience’s prior attitudinal valence and measured the audience’s epistemic trust. The results showed that communicators tuned their messages to the audience’s attitude when they perceived group entitativity and epistemic trust. Furthermore, tuning the message to the audience was found to bias communicators’ subsequent impressions of the topic in a direction closer to the audience’s attitude. These results suggest that perceiving a large audience as a group influences the subsequent impressions of electronic word-of-mouth product or service communicators.

EXAMINATION OF THE METHODS USED IN BEGINNING FLUTE EDUCATION IN TERMS OF CONTENT

The teaching methods to be used will vary according to the individual characteristics of the students who are new to the flute lesson, as well as the beginning flute methods. In the flute education process, the beginning methods must be suitable for the student's age group, perception level. In this context, in this study, it is aimed to examine the beginning flute methods used in flute education in Music Education Departments in terms of content and technical issues. This research is a qualitative study, the literature has been scanned through document analysis and the initial methods used in flute education have been reached. In the research, examinations and interpretations were made on the four methods determined in the study in terms of subjects and basic technical studies. In the methods, subjects related to beginning flute training were mostly included. However, in some methods, explanations and visuals about the subjects were insufficient or even not included at all. Keywords: Instrument education, flute, flute education, method, beginnig method

How to be “groupy” matters: Groups with shared traits and shared goals engender distinct patterns of social judgments

By bringing in the Big-Two model of social perception, the present research extended previous literature regarding how people perceive homogeneous and cohesive groups from the process level to the content level. We compared the effects of intragroup similarity and interaction on warmth and competence judgments about groups. The similarity or interaction (high or low) of the novel groups (Study 1) and an international group (Study 2) was manipulated by descriptions. Participants were asked to rate the target groups on warmth- and competence-related traits. Consistent with our hypotheses, similarity polarized both warmth and competence judgments, whereas interaction polarized warmth judgments but enhanced competence judgments. The current research not only advances group perception research but also provides practical implications for improving group image and intergroup relations.

The study of chained routing algorithm for WNS based on group perception

In order to effectively solve the problem of routing efficiency in wireless sensor networks, a new chained routing algorithm based on group perception is proposed in this paper. First, the performance index parameters such as energy consumption and area coverage are given. Meanwhile, a chained routing strategy based on node utility value is established, which combines the “storage-carrying-forwarding” opportunistic transmission mode and decides whether a message needs to be forwarded to an encounter node according to a message forwarding strategy. Finally, the key factors affecting the chained routing algorithm are studied through simulation experiments. The results show that compared with random routing, the chained routing algorithm has great advantages in message delivery rate, collision probability, accuracy, etc.