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Friendship and group identification: a new look at the role of cohesiveness in groupthink

✍ Scribed by Michael A. Hogg; Sarah C. Hains

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
231 KB
Volume
28
Category
Article
ISSN
0046-2772

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✦ Synopsis

This article proposes that research has failed to clarify the causal role of group cohesiveness in groupthink because of a failure to distinguish cohesiveness from friendship. To remedy this, a conceptual distinction, based on social identity theory, is drawn between positive regard grounded in interpersonal relations (personal attraction, friendship), and solidarity grounded in group identi®cation (depersonalized social attraction, true group cohesiveness)ÐHogg ( 1992). An experiment compared the roles of friendship and social attraction in groupthink. Four-person discussion groups of friends, or socially attractive or random groups of strangers, made decisions (N 472). Background conditions for groupthink were established, and a wide range of subjective and behavioural measures of friendship, identi®cation/social attraction, and the decision-making process were taken. Analyses isolated eects associated with friendship/personal attraction, from those associated with identi®cation/social attraction. Friendship was found to be weakly and negatively related to symptoms of groupthink, while group identi®cation and social attraction were strongly and, with some exceptions, positively related to symptoms of groupthink.

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