𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

Visibility and anonymity effects on attraction and group cohesiveness

✍ Scribed by Martin Lea; Russell Spears; Susan E. Watt

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
175 KB
Volume
37
Category
Article
ISSN
0046-2772

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This study investigated attraction and group cohesiveness under different visibility and anonymity conditions for social categories that differed in their capacity to be visually cued. Using computer‐mediated communication in 36 mixed gender (visually cued category) and nationality (non‐visually cued category) groups, we manipulated social category salience (via discussion topic), and anonymity versus visibility (via live video links). Under high salience, the effects of anonymity versus visibility were moderated by availability of visible category cues. Visibility increased attraction and cohesiveness for visually cued groups, whereas anonymity increased attraction and cohesiveness for non‐visually cued groups. Path analysis showed that, under high salience, effects of visibility and anonymity were mediated by self‐categorization processes, triggered by prototypicality of self in the case of non‐visually cued groups under anonymity. In low salience conditions, visibility directly cued attraction independently from self‐categorization, in line with relational attraction processes. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Conservation of the commons: Effects of
Conservation of the commons: Effects of group cohesiveness and prior sharing
✍ John S. Baird Jr. 📂 Article 📅 1982 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 403 KB

The social issue of conservation is conceptualized in terms of a commons dilemma. Both the recent experimental and theoretical literature are briefly reviewed. The author hypothesized that increasing group cohesiveness and exposing subjects to prior sharing would increase cooperative responding in a

The role of transformational leadership,
The role of transformational leadership, emotional intelligence, and group cohesiveness on leadership emergence
✍ Esther López-Zafra; Rocio Garcia-Retamero; José M. Augusto Landa 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 Wiley (John Wiley & Sons) 🌐 English ⚖ 135 KB

## Abstract The concept of emotional intelligence and its connections with other important psychological constructs have been the focus of a wide range of current research (see Mestre & Fernández‐Berrocal, 2007, and Salovey, Woolery, & Mayer, 2001, for reviews). Yet the relationship between emotion

The effects of cognitive pretraining on
The effects of cognitive pretraining on cohesion and self-disclosure in small groups: An analog study
✍ Leonard J. Santarsiero; Richard C. Baker; Thomas F. McGee 📂 Article 📅 1995 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 522 KB

This study examined the effects of written, cognitive pretraining on the development of cohesion and self-disclosure in interpersonal learning groups. Subjects in the experimental condition received a written introduction to the group experience, and subjects in the control condition received writte