Dominance in Groups: How Dyadic Power Theory Can Apply to Group Discussions

Dunbar, Norah E.; Dorn, Bradley; Hansia, Mohemmad; Ford, Becky; Giles, Matt; Metzger, Miriam J.; Burgoon, Judee K.; Nunamaker, Jay F.; Subrahmanian, V. S.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-54383-9_5

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“…In detailed results reported by Dunbar et al [27], Villagers' ratings of Spies on dominance decreased over time, whereas it increased for Villagers as they came to their final game round. Dominance was correlated with trustworthiness.…”

Section: Subjective Judgmentsmentioning

confidence: 90%

The Psychology of Trust from Relational Messages

Burgoon¹,

Dunbar²,

Metzger³

et al. 2023

The Psychology of Trust

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A fundamental underpinning of all social relationships is trust. Trust can be established through implicit forms of communication called relational messages. A multidisciplinary, multi-university, cross-cultural investigation addressed how these message themes are expressed and whether they are moderated by culture and veracity. A multi-round decision-making game with 695 international participants assessed the nonverbal and verbal behaviors that express such meanings as affection, dominance, and composure, from which people ultimately determine who can be trusted and who not. Analysis of subjective judgments showed that trust was most predicted by dominance, then affection, and lastly, composure. Behaviorally, several nonverbal and verbal behaviors associated with these message themes were combined to predict trust. Results were similar across cultures but moderated by veracity. Methodologically, automated software extracted facial features, vocal features, and linguistic metrics associated with these message themes. A new attentional computer vision method retrospectively identified specific meaningful segments where relational messages were expressed. The new software tools and attentional model hold promise for identifying nuanced, implicit meanings that together predict trust and that can, in combination, serve as proxies for trust.

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Section: Subjective Judgmentsmentioning

confidence: 90%

The Psychology of Trust from Relational Messages

Burgoon¹,

Dunbar²,

Metzger³

et al. 2023

The Psychology of Trust

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“…Studies of online deception that apply IDT to online deception are typically focused on dyadic, online dating interactions; those that apply IDT to communal settings are situated in laboratory contexts rather than in naturalistic settings, with clear roles and goals for participants (e.g. Dunbar et al, 2021; Peng, 2020). The present study extends this prior work by describing the collective experiences of deception in online communities.…”

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“…Studies that address group deception using IDT are typically quantitative; are situated in workplace or organizational settings, where people know one another and have clearly defined roles and shared goals; and take place in laboratories, where people are communicating either in-person or on the phone and not in an online community (Dunbar et al, 2015). These studies find that work tasks are more difficult to accomplish when deception takes place, and that perceived deception lowers trust and raises suspicion in the group (Dunbar et al, 2021; Fuller et al, 2011). Finally, IDT is underdeveloped in its articulation of what happens after people discover deception.…”

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“Emotional strip-mining”: Sympathy sockpuppets in online communities

Greyson

Costello

2021

New Media & Society

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Sympathy sockpuppets are false online identities used for purposes of extracting care work from others. While online community infiltration for nefarious purposes is a well-documented phenomenon, people may also join online communities using deceptive personas (“sockpuppet” accounts) for non-nefarious reasons, such as to gain sympathy or cultivate a sense of belonging in a group. In comparison with scamming and trolling, this more subtle form of online deception is not well understood, and to date, its impacts on individuals and communities have not been fully articulated. This knowledge gap leaves communities without guidance when managing the impacts of this sympathy sockpuppet deception. We interviewed people who had been members of online communities that discovered sympathy sockpuppets in their midst to explore and characterize the phenomenon of sympathy sockpuppetry and to provide guidance for other individuals and communities that encounter similar forms of online deception.

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“…The diverse international sample was intended to test the generalizability and universality of findings (see Ting-Toomey et al, 2000, regarding various cultural styles). However, comparisons among the eight locations failed to show significant differences, apart from Fijians expressing more dominance, and sample sizes within United States locations were too small to compare cultural differences, so we have omitted cultural comparisons (see Dunbar et al, 2021;Giles et al, 2021 for the cultural comparisons).…”

Section: Samplementioning

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How the Brunswikian Lens Model Illustrates the Relationship Between Physiological and Behavioral Signals and Psychological Emotional and Cognitive States

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Social relationships are constructed by and through the relational communication that people exchange. Relational messages are implicit nonverbal and verbal messages that signal how people regard one another and define their interpersonal relationships—equal or unequal, affectionate or hostile, inclusive or exclusive, similar or dissimilar, and so forth. Such signals can be measured automatically by the latest machine learning software tools and combined into meaningful factors that represent the socioemotional expressions that constitute relational messages between people. Relational messages operate continuously on a parallel track with verbal communication, implicitly telling interactants the current state of their relationship and how to interpret the verbal messages being exchanged. We report an investigation that explored how group members signal these implicit messages through multimodal behaviors measured by sensor data and linked to the socioemotional cognitions interpreted as relational messages. By use of a modified Brunswikian lens model, we predicted perceived relational messages of dominance, affection, involvement, composure, similarity and trust from automatically measured kinesic, vocalic and linguistic indicators. The relational messages in turn predicted the veracity of group members. The Brunswikian Lens Model offers a way to connect objective behaviors exhibited by social actors to the emotions and cognitions being perceived by other interactants and linking those perceptions to social outcomes. This method can be used to ascertain what behaviors and/or perceptions are associated with judgments of an actor’s veracity. Computerized measurements of behaviors and perceptions can replace manual measurements, significantly expediting analysis and drilling down to micro-level measurement in a previously unavailable manner.

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Dominance in Groups: How Dyadic Power Theory Can Apply to Group Discussions

Cited by 6 publications

References 39 publications

The Psychology of Trust from Relational Messages

The Psychology of Trust from Relational Messages

“Emotional strip-mining”: Sympathy sockpuppets in online communities

How the Brunswikian Lens Model Illustrates the Relationship Between Physiological and Behavioral Signals and Psychological Emotional and Cognitive States

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