Group conquers efficacy: Preschoolers’ imitation under conflict between minimal group membership and behavior efficacy

Individual Behavior and Group Membership

People who are members of a group, and identify with it, behave differently from people in isolation. The way in which the behavior differs depends in subtle ways from the way in which the nature of the group is perceived, as well as its salience, and also on the way in which people perceive that group membership and observation affects the behavior of others. We study these hypotheses in a str...

Individual Behavior and Group Membership 1

People who are members of a group, and identify with it, behave differently from people in isolation. The way in which the behavior differs depends in subtle ways from the way in which the nature of the group is perceived, as well as its saliency, and also on the way in which people perceive that the behavior of others is affected by the group. We study these hypotheses in a strategic experimen...

Social group membership increases STEM engagement among preschoolers.

The American educational system currently yields disappointing levels of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) engagement and achievement among students. One way to remedy this may be to increase children's motivation in STEM from an early age. This study examined whether a social cue-being part of an experimental "minimal group"-increases STEM engagement in preschoolers (N = 141; 4...

The Influence of Group Membership on Preschoolers’ Selective Trust

The effectiveness of group training for reciprocal behavior analysis on the self-efficacy among school counselors

The aim of the present research was to assess the effectiveness of group training in transactional analysis on the self-efficacy Dimensions of the school counselors. The research method was semi-empirical with pretest- posttest which was held on the control group. Research statistic population included School` s counselors in Bojnourd city in the year 2011. In the first step 77 people of these ...