Numerical representation and cross-cut role assignments: Majority members’ responses under cooperative interaction

Bettencourt, B. Ann; Molix, Lisa; Talley, Amelia E.; Eubanks, Janie

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2006.05.012

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“…When cooperation is introduced among multiple groups, it may increase the unity between the groups and the attractiveness of outgroup members. 19,20 In a laboratory study, when two groups initiated intergroup contact and cooperated, group members were more likely to report reduced bias when they were prompted to think of the new group as comprising one group rather than two. 19 As research in the area of multiple identities developed, so too did the conditions under which contact was understood to reduce bias.…”

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Race in Virtual Environments: Competitive Versus Cooperative Games with Black or White Avatars

Vang

Fox

2014

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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Often, virtual environments and video games have established goals, and to achieve them, users must either compete or cooperate with others. The common ingroup identity model predicts that individuals maintain multiple identities at any given time based on roles, demographics, and contextual factors, and that they interpret others based on similarity (i.e., perceived ingroup) or dissimilarity (i.e., perceived outgroup) to these identities. In this experiment, we manipulated two aspects of a virtual partner's identity-race and task collaboration-to determine how users would perceive others in a virtual world. White participants (N=99) played an anagram game competitively (outgroup) or cooperatively (ingroup) in a virtual environment with a black (outgroup) or white (ingroup) virtual partner. Contrary to hypotheses, performing either task led to more positive evaluations of black avatars than white avatars.

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Section: Common Ingroup Identity Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Race in Virtual Environments: Competitive Versus Cooperative Games with Black or White Avatars

Vang

Fox

2014

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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“…The popularity of this approach is due to its connection with functional leadership theory, which states that leaders should provide teams with structural components (e.g., task roles) to improve team performance (Hackman, 2002). Assigning members different roles for performing a team task offers a new basis for differentiation, lowering previous subgroup salience and intergroup bias (Bettencourt, Molix, Talley, & Eubanks, 2007). By crosscutting task roles, social categorization becomes more complex, more possibilities for subgroup identification are created, and the distinction between in-subgroup and out-subgroup decreases, and therefore completely homogeneous subgroups, clear subgroup boundaries, and their corresponding biases are less likely to occur (Marcus-Newhall, Miller, Holtz, & Brewer, 1993).…”

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Bridging team faultlines by combining task role assignment and goal structure strategies.

Rico¹,

Sánchez-Manzanares²,

Antino³

et al. 2012

Journal of Applied Psychology

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This study tests whether the detrimental effects of strong diversity faultlines on team performance can be counteracted by combining 2 managerial strategies: task role crosscutting and superordinate goals. We conducted a 2 (crosscut vs. aligned roles) × 2 (superordinate vs. subgroup goals) experimental study. Seventy-two 4-person teams with faultlines stemming from gender and educational major performed a complex decision-making task. The results show that teams with crosscut roles perform better when they are assigned a superordinate goal than a subgroup goal, whereas teams with aligned roles are not affected by goal manipulations. This effect is mediated by elaboration of task-relevant information. Implications for theory and management of team faultlines are discussed.

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“…Finally, our findings also emphasize that managers need to focus on the team as an interrelated system when monitoring team communication behavior and team performance. For example, managers could define different roles within a team; especially in teams with strong demographic faultlines (e.g., Bettencourt, Molix, Talley, & Eubanks, 2007; T. Driskell, J. E. Driskell, Burke, & Salas, 2017).…”

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Effects of Media Compensation on Team Performance: The Role of Demographic Faultlines

Straube

Meinecke

Schneider

et al. 2018

Small Group Research

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Modern-day communication in teams is characterized by a frequent and flexible use of various communication technologies. To understand the relationship between this new way of communication and team performance, research suggests incorporating contextual factors. In this study, we explore the role of demographic faultlines and subsequent subgroup formation using data from 164 students nested in 34 software engineering teams working together over the course of 14 weeks. Multilevel modeling revealed a three-way interaction between media richness, communication intensity, and demographic faultlines on team performance. Weak faultline teams evaluated their performance more positively when they compensated for low communication intensity by using richer communication channels and vice versa. In contrast, strong faultline teams were less able to adapt their communication behavior to increase performance. We discuss theoretical implications for team communication and diversity research and provide guidelines for improving communication in diverse teams.

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Numerical representation and cross-cut role assignments: Majority members’ responses under cooperative interaction

Cited by 5 publications

References 71 publications

Race in Virtual Environments: Competitive Versus Cooperative Games with Black or White Avatars

Race in Virtual Environments: Competitive Versus Cooperative Games with Black or White Avatars

Bridging team faultlines by combining task role assignment and goal structure strategies.

Effects of Media Compensation on Team Performance: The Role of Demographic Faultlines

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