Lawrence A Messé
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 240215 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lawrence A Messé |
| PRENOMES | Lawrence A |
| SOBRENOME | Messé |
| ASSINATURA | MESSÉ L A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Michigan State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 148 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Social ostracism and group motivation gain
There is considerable evidence from the social loafing literature that groups can often undermine task motivation (relative to comparable individual performers). There is less but growing evidence that under the appropriate conditions, working in a group can have the opposite effect and actually produce a motivation gain. Little is known about how such motivation losses and gains are affected by the social relationships among group members. The p…
Social Compensation
The use of coactors as non-group controls in prior social compensation research has left open the possibility that the effect might artifactually have resulted from a confound between work condition (Coaction vs. Collective) and the opportunity to make performance comparisons. A direct empirical test of this alternative, artifactual explanation is reported. Its results contradict that explanation and suggest that the use of coactors as controls h…
Identifiability, Performance Feedback and the Köhler Effect
Research, starting with Köhler (1926), has demonstrated a type of group motivation gain, wherein the less capable member of a dyad working conjunctively at a persistence task works harder than comparable individuals. To explore possible boundary conditions of this effect, the current experiment systematically varied the amount and timing of performance feedback group members received. Results showed: (a) continuous feedback of both members’ perfo…
Reactions toward an unexpected or counternormative favor-giver
Having to Take a Stand
Some research has found that a minority message source is less persuasive than a majority source on personally relevant issues. In that research, participants were forewarned that they would have to report their attitudinal reactions. We hypothesized that if recipients were given an opinion-irrelevant (recall) task instead, source status would not affect attitudes. Participants were asked to read a strong, outcome-relevant, counterattitudinal per…
Knowledge of partner's ability as a moderator of group motivation gains
O. Köhler (1926, 1927) found that less able performers tried harder as team members under conjunctive task demands (Köhler motivation gain effect) and that the greatest gain occurred with moderately discrepant coworker abilities (Köhler discrepancy effect). Recent investigations have reproduced Köhler's overall motivation gain but not the discrepancy effect. The present research examined whether workers' foreknowledge of task abilities--present i…
Motivation gains in performance groups
In contrast to many demonstrations of social loafing, relatively few studies have documented group motivation gains. One such exception was O. Köhler's (1926, 1927) finding that team members working together did better at a taxing persistence task than would be expected from their individual performances, particularly when there was a moderate discrepancy in coworkers' capabilities. In Experiment 1, we developed a paradigm within which Köhler's o…
Jurors' use of naked statistical evidence
G. L. Wells (1992) demonstrated that jurors react differently to probabilistic evidence indicating that there is an 80% chance the defendant committed an act than they do to 80% reliable evidence indicating the defendant committed an act. Even though jurors report that the probability of guilt is approximately 80% for both forms, they are much more likely to find against the defendant in the latter than in the former case, a phenomenon the author…
Toward a more Complex Understanding of Acculturation and Adjustment
This study examined possible links between acculturation and adjustment in 182 Vietnamese youths living in a primarily Anglo-American community. Extending past work, the present research employed a more complex perspective on both acculturation-cast as separate levels of involvement in the native and host cultures-and adjustment-measured across personal (distress, depression, self-esteem), interpersonal (family relationships), and achievement (sc…
Boundary regulation in family and personal systems
An experimental test of defensive processes in impression formation
Maternal perceptual style and mother-infant play behavior
Normal mothers' perceptions of an older child at play were used to assess maternal perceptual biases. Mothers then engaged in play encounters with their 15-month-old infants. Perceptual biases were related to infant and mother play behaviors. For example, positive perceptions were related to positive play and interpersonal behaviors, including mutual play and exchange games. The data suggest support for the hypothesis that maternal perceptions of…
The Effects of Task-Group Experiences on Subsequent Prosocial Behavior
This research examined effects of experiences within task-oriented groups on subsequent prosocial behaviors in a different context. Male subjects first worked on a task in pairs or as individuals (base-rate controls). Within the pairs, either the two subjects worked as equals or one (superordinate role) supervised the other (subordinate role). Afterwards, a fellow subject-either the former coworker or a member of another group-asked for help on a…
Belief discrepant behavior and the bogus pipeline
Complex nature of the sense of fairness
The Impact of Task Inputs, Situational Context, and Sex on Evaluations of Reward Allocators
Marital satisfaction, parenting satisfaction, and parenting behavior in early infancy
The relationships between marital adjustment, satisfaction with parenting and actual parental behavior were assessed for a sample of first-time parents. Results indicated that there were consistent relationships between fathers' satisfaction scores and their own behaviors, but few relationships between mothers' behaviors and satisfaction scores. It was suggested that the determinants of the behavior of mothers and fathers may differ. In the absen…
Attribute relevance as a moderator of the effects of motivation on impression formation
Predictions of others' responses in a mixed-motive game
Interpersonal consequences of person perception processes in two social contexts
Sex differences in the allocation of pay
Social structure, member motivation, and group productivity
Equity and the formation of revolutionary and conservative coalitions in triads
This study tested opposing predictions made by Gamson's Minimum Resource Theory and equity theory concerning the type of coalitions that are formed when members of a triad expect that rewards will be correlated with amounts of individual resources. Results supported equity theory in that subjects, whose work on a pretask was used as the basis for assigning resources in a bargaining game, formed conservative (strong against weak) coalitions. When …
Rediscovering the need for multiple operations
Reactions to Threat as a Function of Equity
The present study investigated the influence of the norm of equity on affective reactions to receiving either a threat or a suggestion. After working on a pretask, subjects were given $6 to divide between themselves and another- worker who sent them a threat, a suggestion, or no message. Affective reactions to the messages, which attempted to influence reward allocation, were found to be related to the fairness of the requested distribution. Alth…
Toward a more Complex Understanding of Acculturation and Adjustment
This study examined possible links between acculturation and adjustment in 182 Vietnamese youths living in a primarily Anglo-American community. Extending past work, the present research employed a more complex perspective on both acculturation-cast as separate levels of involvement in the native and host cultures-and adjustment-measured across personal (distress, depression, self-esteem), interpersonal (family relationships), and achievement (sc…
Distribution of insufficient, sufficient, and oversufficient rewards
Equity and the distribution of rewards
The paper reports the results of two studies which examined propositions derived from equity theory concerning how persons distribute rewards to themselves and others. Such behavior can be classified into three types of distribution responses. Study 1 investigated the distribution responses of persons who each had unilateral power to determine their own rewards and those of one other person, when both had equal inputs. Results supported predictio…
Predictions of others' responses in a mixed-motive game
Sex differences in the allocation of pay
Sex differences in bystander reactions to physical assault
Social ostracism and group motivation gain
There is considerable evidence from the social loafing literature that groups can often undermine task motivation (relative to comparable individual performers). There is less but growing evidence that under the appropriate conditions, working in a group can have the opposite effect and actually produce a motivation gain. Little is known about how such motivation losses and gains are affected by the social relationships among group members. The p…
Knowledge of partner's ability as a moderator of group motivation gains
O. Köhler (1926, 1927) found that less able performers tried harder as team members under conjunctive task demands (Köhler motivation gain effect) and that the greatest gain occurred with moderately discrepant coworker abilities (Köhler discrepancy effect). Recent investigations have reproduced Köhler's overall motivation gain but not the discrepancy effect. The present research examined whether workers' foreknowledge of task abilities--present i…
Complex nature of the sense of fairness
Equity and the formation of revolutionary and conservative coalitions in triads
This study tested opposing predictions made by Gamson's Minimum Resource Theory and equity theory concerning the type of coalitions that are formed when members of a triad expect that rewards will be correlated with amounts of individual resources. Results supported equity theory in that subjects, whose work on a pretask was used as the basis for assigning resources in a bargaining game, formed conservative (strong against weak) coalitions. When …
Motivational determinants of small-group structure
Social Compensation
The use of coactors as non-group controls in prior social compensation research has left open the possibility that the effect might artifactually have resulted from a confound between work condition (Coaction vs. Collective) and the opportunity to make performance comparisons. A direct empirical test of this alternative, artifactual explanation is reported. Its results contradict that explanation and suggest that the use of coactors as controls h…
Identifiability, Performance Feedback and the Köhler Effect
Research, starting with Köhler (1926), has demonstrated a type of group motivation gain, wherein the less capable member of a dyad working conjunctively at a persistence task works harder than comparable individuals. To explore possible boundary conditions of this effect, the current experiment systematically varied the amount and timing of performance feedback group members received. Results showed: (a) continuous feedback of both members’ perfo…
Reactions toward an unexpected or counternormative favor-giver
Jurors' use of naked statistical evidence
G. L. Wells (1992) demonstrated that jurors react differently to probabilistic evidence indicating that there is an 80% chance the defendant committed an act than they do to 80% reliable evidence indicating the defendant committed an act. Even though jurors report that the probability of guilt is approximately 80% for both forms, they are much more likely to find against the defendant in the latter than in the former case, a phenomenon the author…
Motivation as a mediator of the mechanisms underlying role assignments in small groups
An experimental test of defensive processes in impression formation
Attribute relevance as a moderator of the effects of motivation on impression formation
Interpersonal consequences of person perception processes in two social contexts
Equity as a mediator of the effect of reward level on behavior in the Prisoner's Dilemma game
Having to Take a Stand
Some research has found that a minority message source is less persuasive than a majority source on personally relevant issues. In that research, participants were forewarned that they would have to report their attitudinal reactions. We hypothesized that if recipients were given an opinion-irrelevant (recall) task instead, source status would not affect attitudes. Participants were asked to read a strong, outcome-relevant, counterattitudinal per…
Boundary regulation in family and personal systems
Conditions affecting attempts to convert fate control to behavior control
Equity in bilateral bargaining
When does dissonance fail? The time dimension in attitude measurement1
Results of previous research dealing with the effect of differential monetary reinforcement (for the composition of a counterattitudinal essay) upon attitude change have been contradictory Cohen (1962), for example, discovered a negative relationship between reinforcement and attitude change, results consistent with dissonance theory expectations, Rosenberg (1965) explained these findings in terms of evaluation apprehension and, eliminating this …
Sex differences in bystander reactions to physical assault
Motivational determinants of small-group structure
Equity and the distribution of rewards
The paper reports the results of two studies which examined propositions derived from equity theory concerning how persons distribute rewards to themselves and others. Such behavior can be classified into three types of distribution responses. Study 1 investigated the distribution responses of persons who each had unilateral power to determine their own rewards and those of one other person, when both had equal inputs. Results supported predictio…
Equity in bilateral bargaining
Motivation as a mediator of the mechanisms underlying role assignments in small groups
Distribution of insufficient, sufficient, and oversufficient rewards
Conditions affecting attempts to convert fate control to behavior control
Equity as a mediator of the effect of reward level on behavior in the Prisoner's Dilemma game
Rediscovering the need for multiple operations
Reactions to Threat as a Function of Equity
The present study investigated the influence of the norm of equity on affective reactions to receiving either a threat or a suggestion. After working on a pretask, subjects were given $6 to divide between themselves and another- worker who sent them a threat, a suggestion, or no message. Affective reactions to the messages, which attempted to influence reward allocation, were found to be related to the fairness of the requested distribution. Alth…
Social structure, member motivation, and group productivity
Equity and the formation of revolutionary and conservative coalitions in triads
This study tested opposing predictions made by Gamson's Minimum Resource Theory and equity theory concerning the type of coalitions that are formed when members of a triad expect that rewards will be correlated with amounts of individual resources. Results supported equity theory in that subjects, whose work on a pretask was used as the basis for assigning resources in a bargaining game, formed conservative (strong against weak) coalitions. When …
Predictions of others' responses in a mixed-motive game
Interpersonal consequences of person perception processes in two social contexts
Sex differences in the allocation of pay
Attribute relevance as a moderator of the effects of motivation on impression formation
The Impact of Task Inputs, Situational Context, and Sex on Evaluations of Reward Allocators
Marital satisfaction, parenting satisfaction, and parenting behavior in early infancy
The relationships between marital adjustment, satisfaction with parenting and actual parental behavior were assessed for a sample of first-time parents. Results indicated that there were consistent relationships between fathers' satisfaction scores and their own behaviors, but few relationships between mothers' behaviors and satisfaction scores. It was suggested that the determinants of the behavior of mothers and fathers may differ. In the absen…
Complex nature of the sense of fairness
The Effects of Task-Group Experiences on Subsequent Prosocial Behavior
This research examined effects of experiences within task-oriented groups on subsequent prosocial behaviors in a different context. Male subjects first worked on a task in pairs or as individuals (base-rate controls). Within the pairs, either the two subjects worked as equals or one (superordinate role) supervised the other (subordinate role). Afterwards, a fellow subject-either the former coworker or a member of another group-asked for help on a…
Belief discrepant behavior and the bogus pipeline
Maternal perceptual style and mother-infant play behavior
Normal mothers' perceptions of an older child at play were used to assess maternal perceptual biases. Mothers then engaged in play encounters with their 15-month-old infants. Perceptual biases were related to infant and mother play behaviors. For example, positive perceptions were related to positive play and interpersonal behaviors, including mutual play and exchange games. The data suggest support for the hypothesis that maternal perceptions of…
An experimental test of defensive processes in impression formation
Boundary regulation in family and personal systems
Psychology (34 obras) · Social Psychology (32 obras) · Social Psychology (22 obras) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (12 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · Cognitive psychology (7 obras) · Developmental psychology (7 obras) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (7 obras) · Cognitive and psychological constructs research (6 obras) · Perception (6 obras)