W I Griffith
Biographic Data
| ID | 20361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W I Griffith |
| GIVEN NAMES | W I |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffith |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFITH W I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Denver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence in Foreign Language Learning
Successful foreign language learners need to have intercultural communicative competence that goes beyond linguistic knowledge. This paper focuses on designing activities that promote intercultural communicative competence in foreign language learning. Competence in intercultural communication requires an understanding of both the L1 and L2 cultures. Using the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) [1] skill levels, this paper looks at the role of…
Self-Interested versus Third-Party Allocations of Rewards
Allocations made by third parties are compared to those made by self-interested group members. In addition, three other theoretically relevant factors are considered: the sex composition of the dyad to which the allocations are made, the sex of the high performer in the dyad, and the sex of the allocator. The theoretical setting is characterized by a cooperative task in which effort is the relevant input. As suggested by past studies, allocations…
Are Women More Cooperative Than Men in Social Dilemmas
Contradictory results regarding sex effects in social dilemmas have been obtained. In some studies women have contributed more than men; in some studies men have contributed more than women; in some studies no sex differences have appeared. This paper attempts to reconcile these findings. We examine whether the participants' sex, the sex composition of the group, or the resources involved in the social dilemma lead to sex differences in contribut…
Are inputs sometimes outcomes? Some thoughts on definition in distributive justice
Putting the group back into intergroup justice studies
Justice and intergroup relations
Dominance, sex, and leader emergence
Likelihood of a Housing Purchase and Neighborhood Preferences
This study allowed potential white home buyers to indicate preferences regarding neighborhood location and the racial composition of a neighborhood from a context-free perspective. A vignette analysis was used to obtain the data. The information was then compared with findings from previous work in the same field. The results show that, by itself, location may not be a factor which affects consideration of buying a house. This supports most previ…
The effect of inputs and performance outcomes on allocation decisions
The effects of competition on allocators' preferences for contributive and retributive justice rules
A 2 × 2 × 3 factorial design was employed to test the effects of competition on justice rule preferences in contributive and retributive settings. The factors included task structure (cooperative versus competitive); allocation (contributive versus retributive); and input information (no information, ability only, effort only). The data showed that, in contribution conditions, competition alone was insufficient to produce changes in allocation pr…
Differentiation in small group power relations under conditions of diminishing external reward contingencies
This article examines the effects of diminishing external rewards on the structured differentiation which occurs in groups. The article proposes a model which suggests that power structures in groups result from both the rates of directive activity and the rates of environmental rewards. Under declining external reward conditions groups become more discriminated. Such discrimination leads to the development and maintenance of structurally differe…
Old Wine in New Bottles
ployment. This has resulted in a trend in enrollment away from the liberal arts disciplines such as sociology and toward business and professional schools. Three basic responses by sociology departments to the enrollment crisis are the hang-on responses, the spin-offs into specialty areas, and the applied sociology response. This is a case study in which the response is different from the above three. This article shows how one department in an u…
"A Note on the "Social Law of Effect
A growing body of research suggests the appropriateness of social analogues to such psychological constructions as the “law of effect” The focus of this paper is to expand the model to include information about the quality of directive acts and external environmental levels of reinforcement. The expanded multivariable model proposed here provides increased precision and a significant increase in explained variation. The introduction of informatio…
A Theoretical Note on
This is a note about some of the theoretical issues raised in the exchange among Tremblay, Winter, Flaming, and Griffith in Housing and Society, Volume 10, Number 1. The theory of W.I. Thomas and causal modeling are suggested ways to improve the theoretical base of housing research
A Theoretical Note on
(1984). A Theoretical Note on: Housing Preferences and Housing Choice: a Reply to Tremblay and Winter. Housing and Society: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 168-172
On Differentiation in Small-Group Power Relations
This paper examines the structural differentiation model of social power presented by Gray and Sullivan (1978). That early model assumed that differential external reward contingencies would produce differentiated group structures. This paper argues that the Gray and Sullivan model is incomplete and insufficient to produce structural differentiation in more general situations. We argue that more complex learning mechanisms are involved and presen…
Rewarding Teacher Excellence
Group Differentiation
One of the most pervasive phenomena characteristic of group interaction is structural differentiation. Groups tend to distribute their activity and their internally shared reinforcements in ways that allow them to resolve problems with which they are confronted by their environment: thus differentiation implies variable allocation of rewards across group members. These distributions often tend to be such that certain individuals or subgroups rece…
Social Matching over Multiple Reinforcement Domains
A growing body of research suggests the appropriateness of social analogues to such psychological constructions as the “matching law” and the “law of effect” Using such analogues and their appropriate social applications we are able to show that apparent situations of inequity or exchange imbalance are actually often the result of balancing mechanisms which operate when several reinforcement domains are simultaneously operative in social situatio…
Are Women More Cooperative Than Men in Social Dilemmas
Contradictory results regarding sex effects in social dilemmas have been obtained. In some studies women have contributed more than men; in some studies men have contributed more than women; in some studies no sex differences have appeared. This paper attempts to reconcile these findings. We examine whether the participants' sex, the sex composition of the group, or the resources involved in the social dilemma lead to sex differences in contribut…
The effects of competition on allocators' preferences for contributive and retributive justice rules
A 2 × 2 × 3 factorial design was employed to test the effects of competition on justice rule preferences in contributive and retributive settings. The factors included task structure (cooperative versus competitive); allocation (contributive versus retributive); and input information (no information, ability only, effort only). The data showed that, in contribution conditions, competition alone was insufficient to produce changes in allocation pr…
Dominance, sex, and leader emergence
Self-Interested versus Third-Party Allocations of Rewards
Allocations made by third parties are compared to those made by self-interested group members. In addition, three other theoretically relevant factors are considered: the sex composition of the dyad to which the allocations are made, the sex of the high performer in the dyad, and the sex of the allocator. The theoretical setting is characterized by a cooperative task in which effort is the relevant input. As suggested by past studies, allocations…
Putting the group back into intergroup justice studies
The effect of inputs and performance outcomes on allocation decisions
Old Wine in New Bottles
ployment. This has resulted in a trend in enrollment away from the liberal arts disciplines such as sociology and toward business and professional schools. Three basic responses by sociology departments to the enrollment crisis are the hang-on responses, the spin-offs into specialty areas, and the applied sociology response. This is a case study in which the response is different from the above three. This article shows how one department in an u…
Social Matching over Multiple Reinforcement Domains
A growing body of research suggests the appropriateness of social analogues to such psychological constructions as the “matching law” and the “law of effect” Using such analogues and their appropriate social applications we are able to show that apparent situations of inequity or exchange imbalance are actually often the result of balancing mechanisms which operate when several reinforcement domains are simultaneously operative in social situatio…
Group Differentiation
One of the most pervasive phenomena characteristic of group interaction is structural differentiation. Groups tend to distribute their activity and their internally shared reinforcements in ways that allow them to resolve problems with which they are confronted by their environment: thus differentiation implies variable allocation of rewards across group members. These distributions often tend to be such that certain individuals or subgroups rece…
Social Matching over Multiple Reinforcement Domains
A growing body of research suggests the appropriateness of social analogues to such psychological constructions as the “matching law” and the “law of effect” Using such analogues and their appropriate social applications we are able to show that apparent situations of inequity or exchange imbalance are actually often the result of balancing mechanisms which operate when several reinforcement domains are simultaneously operative in social situatio…
A Theoretical Note on
This is a note about some of the theoretical issues raised in the exchange among Tremblay, Winter, Flaming, and Griffith in Housing and Society, Volume 10, Number 1. The theory of W.I. Thomas and causal modeling are suggested ways to improve the theoretical base of housing research
A Theoretical Note on
(1984). A Theoretical Note on: Housing Preferences and Housing Choice: a Reply to Tremblay and Winter. Housing and Society: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 168-172
On Differentiation in Small-Group Power Relations
This paper examines the structural differentiation model of social power presented by Gray and Sullivan (1978). That early model assumed that differential external reward contingencies would produce differentiated group structures. This paper argues that the Gray and Sullivan model is incomplete and insufficient to produce structural differentiation in more general situations. We argue that more complex learning mechanisms are involved and presen…
Rewarding Teacher Excellence
Old Wine in New Bottles
ployment. This has resulted in a trend in enrollment away from the liberal arts disciplines such as sociology and toward business and professional schools. Three basic responses by sociology departments to the enrollment crisis are the hang-on responses, the spin-offs into specialty areas, and the applied sociology response. This is a case study in which the response is different from the above three. This article shows how one department in an u…
"A Note on the "Social Law of Effect
A growing body of research suggests the appropriateness of social analogues to such psychological constructions as the “law of effect” The focus of this paper is to expand the model to include information about the quality of directive acts and external environmental levels of reinforcement. The expanded multivariable model proposed here provides increased precision and a significant increase in explained variation. The introduction of informatio…
Differentiation in small group power relations under conditions of diminishing external reward contingencies
This article examines the effects of diminishing external rewards on the structured differentiation which occurs in groups. The article proposes a model which suggests that power structures in groups result from both the rates of directive activity and the rates of environmental rewards. Under declining external reward conditions groups become more discriminated. Such discrimination leads to the development and maintenance of structurally differe…
The effects of competition on allocators' preferences for contributive and retributive justice rules
A 2 × 2 × 3 factorial design was employed to test the effects of competition on justice rule preferences in contributive and retributive settings. The factors included task structure (cooperative versus competitive); allocation (contributive versus retributive); and input information (no information, ability only, effort only). The data showed that, in contribution conditions, competition alone was insufficient to produce changes in allocation pr…
Likelihood of a Housing Purchase and Neighborhood Preferences
This study allowed potential white home buyers to indicate preferences regarding neighborhood location and the racial composition of a neighborhood from a context-free perspective. A vignette analysis was used to obtain the data. The information was then compared with findings from previous work in the same field. The results show that, by itself, location may not be a factor which affects consideration of buying a house. This supports most previ…
The effect of inputs and performance outcomes on allocation decisions
Dominance, sex, and leader emergence
Self-Interested versus Third-Party Allocations of Rewards
Allocations made by third parties are compared to those made by self-interested group members. In addition, three other theoretically relevant factors are considered: the sex composition of the dyad to which the allocations are made, the sex of the high performer in the dyad, and the sex of the allocator. The theoretical setting is characterized by a cooperative task in which effort is the relevant input. As suggested by past studies, allocations…
Are Women More Cooperative Than Men in Social Dilemmas
Contradictory results regarding sex effects in social dilemmas have been obtained. In some studies women have contributed more than men; in some studies men have contributed more than women; in some studies no sex differences have appeared. This paper attempts to reconcile these findings. We examine whether the participants' sex, the sex composition of the group, or the resources involved in the social dilemma lead to sex differences in contribut…
Are inputs sometimes outcomes? Some thoughts on definition in distributive justice
Putting the group back into intergroup justice studies
Justice and intergroup relations
Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence in Foreign Language Learning
Successful foreign language learners need to have intercultural communicative competence that goes beyond linguistic knowledge. This paper focuses on designing activities that promote intercultural communicative competence in foreign language learning. Competence in intercultural communication requires an understanding of both the L1 and L2 cultures. Using the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) [1] skill levels, this paper looks at the role of…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (5 works) · Microeconomics (5 works)