Renée A Meyers
Biographic Data
| ID | 172542 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renée A Meyers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renée A |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyers |
| SIGNATURE | MEYERS R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
At the Convergence of Input and Process Models of Group Discussion
We investigate the stability and change of participation patterns in small groups by examining two longitudinal data sets at the individual and group levels of analysis. Rejecting the dichotomy between input and process models, we advance a view at the convergence of these two perspectives. We argue that stability in participation reflects input factors and that change emerges from process mechanisms. Study 1 analyzed discussion data from zero-hi…
Cultural Differences in Conflict Management Styles in East and West Organizations Employing Holism as a Cultural Theoretical Frame to Investigate South Korean and U.S. Employee Conflict Management Sty…
This study employed a new theoretical frame, holism, to distinguish cultural differences in conflict management strategy preference. Results indicated that S. Koreans showed more holistic tendencies than U.S. employees, and higher scores on a holism measure were positively related to ratings of the collaborative style (S. Korean preferred style) and negatively related to ratings of the avoidant style (U.S. preferred style). In comparisons across …
Examining Functional Communication as Egocentric or Group-Centric
Functional communication in small groups is generally treated as a medium (i.e., reflecting and explained by individual proclivities) or as constitutive (i.e., interaction has independent effects on outcomes). Rather than approach the problem as either/or, we assume that functional communication consists of both processes. To explore this assumption, we applied two models that offer contrasting views on this debate—Hewes's (1986, 1996, 2009) soci…
Extending the Conversational Argument Coding Scheme
The Conversational Argument Scheme (CAS) has been shaped by a host of researcher colleagues. Each revision has attempted to improve the scheme, apply it in a different context, or submit its data to unique analyses. All of these combined efforts have increased the scheme's utility, reliability, and validity. As part of this series of articles that trace the history of the CAS and speculate on its future, three revisions to the scheme are discusse…
Making Foundational Assumptions Transparent
Journal Article Making Foundational Assumptions Transparent: Framing the Discussion About Group Communication and Influence Get access Renee A. Meyers, Renee A. Meyers 1University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David R. Seibold David R. Seibold 2University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Resear…
What's So Funny? Moving Students Toward Complex Thinking in a Course on Comedy and Laughter
This case study involves investigation of freshman students' abilities to engage in the pursuit and appreciation of complex thinking through their study of comedy and laughter in a Freshman Seminar at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. We offer an analysis of students' reflections on their confrontation with complexity as they attempt to formulate theories of these phenomena, and describe how this confrontation changes the students' understan…
Cultural and Parental Communicative Influences on the Career Success of White and Black Women
This study investigated cultural and parental communicative influences on the career success of White and Black women. A questionnaire was distributed to 123 Black and White women who were members of two organizations that required “career success” (professional/upper-level management positions) for admission. Participants in the study were asked to discuss their conceptions of career success, the communicative influence of their parents on their…
Majority-Minority Influence
In this paper, the authors investigate the argument activities of majority and minority factions in small group decision-making situations. We begin by identifying patterns of argument that characterize majority and minority communication in 34 discussions and then test several subgroup-outcome and argument-outcome links. Results indicate that winning and losing subgroups argue differently (as do minority and majority subgroups overall) and that …
Argument in group decision making
For this research, we extended previous descriptive studies of group argument by (a) positing a theoretical process model of group argument and (b) investigating the predictive nature of argument ingroups. Following development of the group argument process model, we employed two frameworks—the Group Valence Model and two versions of the Distribution of Valence Model—to study the argument‐outcome link. We expanded all three models to include prop…
Public Issues, Agenda-Setting, and Argument
Perspectives on Group Argument
This chapter summarizes a program of research undertaken to examine a prominent cognitive-informational theory of group argument—persuasive arguments theory (PAT). An examination of PAT seems especially germane for communication researchers, for PAT predicts particular group outcomes without direct analysis of interaction. Four tasks are undertaken in this chapter. First, key assumptions of two metatheoretical approaches to argument-the cognitive…
Testing persuasive argument theory's predictor model
Persuasive Arguments Theory (PAT) is a noninteractional theory of group decision‐making that predicts postdiscussion shifts (polarization/choice shifts) from the cognitive arguments individuals generate prior to discussion. PAT relegates interaction to a “display channel”; it is considered an efficient, but not necessary, mechanism for displaying members’ cognitive arguments in group discussion. The principal PAT predictor model incorporates four…
Persuasive Arguments Theory A Test of Assumptions
Persuasive Arguments Theory (PAT) is a noninteractionl theory of group decision making that predicts decision outcomes from the cognitive arguments individuals generate prior to discussion. PAT proponents do not view discussion as a crucial determinant of decision outcomes, but rather as one possible medium for information exchange. On this view, they assume members’ cognitive arguments correspond to arguments produced in discussion and group inf…
Political momentum
The relative momentum of the presidential candidates was given prominent treatment by the television networks in 1976, though each network handled it differently, both in terms of the candidate favored and the source of momentum claims
Majority-Minority Influence
In this paper, the authors investigate the argument activities of majority and minority factions in small group decision-making situations. We begin by identifying patterns of argument that characterize majority and minority communication in 34 discussions and then test several subgroup-outcome and argument-outcome links. Results indicate that winning and losing subgroups argue differently (as do minority and majority subgroups overall) and that …
Persuasive Arguments Theory A Test of Assumptions
Persuasive Arguments Theory (PAT) is a noninteractionl theory of group decision making that predicts decision outcomes from the cognitive arguments individuals generate prior to discussion. PAT proponents do not view discussion as a crucial determinant of decision outcomes, but rather as one possible medium for information exchange. On this view, they assume members’ cognitive arguments correspond to arguments produced in discussion and group inf…
Testing persuasive argument theory's predictor model
Persuasive Arguments Theory (PAT) is a noninteractional theory of group decision‐making that predicts postdiscussion shifts (polarization/choice shifts) from the cognitive arguments individuals generate prior to discussion. PAT relegates interaction to a “display channel”; it is considered an efficient, but not necessary, mechanism for displaying members’ cognitive arguments in group discussion. The principal PAT predictor model incorporates four…
Argument in group decision making
For this research, we extended previous descriptive studies of group argument by (a) positing a theoretical process model of group argument and (b) investigating the predictive nature of argument ingroups. Following development of the group argument process model, we employed two frameworks—the Group Valence Model and two versions of the Distribution of Valence Model—to study the argument‐outcome link. We expanded all three models to include prop…
Examining Functional Communication as Egocentric or Group-Centric
Functional communication in small groups is generally treated as a medium (i.e., reflecting and explained by individual proclivities) or as constitutive (i.e., interaction has independent effects on outcomes). Rather than approach the problem as either/or, we assume that functional communication consists of both processes. To explore this assumption, we applied two models that offer contrasting views on this debate—Hewes's (1986, 1996, 2009) soci…
At the Convergence of Input and Process Models of Group Discussion
We investigate the stability and change of participation patterns in small groups by examining two longitudinal data sets at the individual and group levels of analysis. Rejecting the dichotomy between input and process models, we advance a view at the convergence of these two perspectives. We argue that stability in participation reflects input factors and that change emerges from process mechanisms. Study 1 analyzed discussion data from zero-hi…
Extending the Conversational Argument Coding Scheme
The Conversational Argument Scheme (CAS) has been shaped by a host of researcher colleagues. Each revision has attempted to improve the scheme, apply it in a different context, or submit its data to unique analyses. All of these combined efforts have increased the scheme's utility, reliability, and validity. As part of this series of articles that trace the history of the CAS and speculate on its future, three revisions to the scheme are discusse…
Cultural and Parental Communicative Influences on the Career Success of White and Black Women
This study investigated cultural and parental communicative influences on the career success of White and Black women. A questionnaire was distributed to 123 Black and White women who were members of two organizations that required “career success” (professional/upper-level management positions) for admission. Participants in the study were asked to discuss their conceptions of career success, the communicative influence of their parents on their…
Political momentum
The relative momentum of the presidential candidates was given prominent treatment by the television networks in 1976, though each network handled it differently, both in terms of the candidate favored and the source of momentum claims
Political momentum
The relative momentum of the presidential candidates was given prominent treatment by the television networks in 1976, though each network handled it differently, both in terms of the candidate favored and the source of momentum claims
Testing persuasive argument theory's predictor model
Persuasive Arguments Theory (PAT) is a noninteractional theory of group decision‐making that predicts postdiscussion shifts (polarization/choice shifts) from the cognitive arguments individuals generate prior to discussion. PAT relegates interaction to a “display channel”; it is considered an efficient, but not necessary, mechanism for displaying members’ cognitive arguments in group discussion. The principal PAT predictor model incorporates four…
Persuasive Arguments Theory A Test of Assumptions
Persuasive Arguments Theory (PAT) is a noninteractionl theory of group decision making that predicts decision outcomes from the cognitive arguments individuals generate prior to discussion. PAT proponents do not view discussion as a crucial determinant of decision outcomes, but rather as one possible medium for information exchange. On this view, they assume members’ cognitive arguments correspond to arguments produced in discussion and group inf…
Perspectives on Group Argument
This chapter summarizes a program of research undertaken to examine a prominent cognitive-informational theory of group argument—persuasive arguments theory (PAT). An examination of PAT seems especially germane for communication researchers, for PAT predicts particular group outcomes without direct analysis of interaction. Four tasks are undertaken in this chapter. First, key assumptions of two metatheoretical approaches to argument-the cognitive…
Public Issues, Agenda-Setting, and Argument
Argument in group decision making
For this research, we extended previous descriptive studies of group argument by (a) positing a theoretical process model of group argument and (b) investigating the predictive nature of argument ingroups. Following development of the group argument process model, we employed two frameworks—the Group Valence Model and two versions of the Distribution of Valence Model—to study the argument‐outcome link. We expanded all three models to include prop…
Majority-Minority Influence
In this paper, the authors investigate the argument activities of majority and minority factions in small group decision-making situations. We begin by identifying patterns of argument that characterize majority and minority communication in 34 discussions and then test several subgroup-outcome and argument-outcome links. Results indicate that winning and losing subgroups argue differently (as do minority and majority subgroups overall) and that …
Cultural and Parental Communicative Influences on the Career Success of White and Black Women
This study investigated cultural and parental communicative influences on the career success of White and Black women. A questionnaire was distributed to 123 Black and White women who were members of two organizations that required “career success” (professional/upper-level management positions) for admission. Participants in the study were asked to discuss their conceptions of career success, the communicative influence of their parents on their…
What's So Funny? Moving Students Toward Complex Thinking in a Course on Comedy and Laughter
This case study involves investigation of freshman students' abilities to engage in the pursuit and appreciation of complex thinking through their study of comedy and laughter in a Freshman Seminar at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. We offer an analysis of students' reflections on their confrontation with complexity as they attempt to formulate theories of these phenomena, and describe how this confrontation changes the students' understan…
Making Foundational Assumptions Transparent
Journal Article Making Foundational Assumptions Transparent: Framing the Discussion About Group Communication and Influence Get access Renee A. Meyers, Renee A. Meyers 1University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David R. Seibold David R. Seibold 2University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Resear…
Extending the Conversational Argument Coding Scheme
The Conversational Argument Scheme (CAS) has been shaped by a host of researcher colleagues. Each revision has attempted to improve the scheme, apply it in a different context, or submit its data to unique analyses. All of these combined efforts have increased the scheme's utility, reliability, and validity. As part of this series of articles that trace the history of the CAS and speculate on its future, three revisions to the scheme are discusse…
Examining Functional Communication as Egocentric or Group-Centric
Functional communication in small groups is generally treated as a medium (i.e., reflecting and explained by individual proclivities) or as constitutive (i.e., interaction has independent effects on outcomes). Rather than approach the problem as either/or, we assume that functional communication consists of both processes. To explore this assumption, we applied two models that offer contrasting views on this debate—Hewes's (1986, 1996, 2009) soci…
Cultural Differences in Conflict Management Styles in East and West Organizations Employing Holism as a Cultural Theoretical Frame to Investigate South Korean and U.S. Employee Conflict Management Sty…
This study employed a new theoretical frame, holism, to distinguish cultural differences in conflict management strategy preference. Results indicated that S. Koreans showed more holistic tendencies than U.S. employees, and higher scores on a holism measure were positively related to ratings of the collaborative style (S. Korean preferred style) and negatively related to ratings of the avoidant style (U.S. preferred style). In comparisons across …
At the Convergence of Input and Process Models of Group Discussion
We investigate the stability and change of participation patterns in small groups by examining two longitudinal data sets at the individual and group levels of analysis. Rejecting the dichotomy between input and process models, we advance a view at the convergence of these two perspectives. We argue that stability in participation reflects input factors and that change emerges from process mechanisms. Study 1 analyzed discussion data from zero-hi…
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Argument (complex analysis (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Team Dynamics and Performance (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Conflict Management and Negotiation (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)