Group Membership and Parthood

Parthood Simpliciter vs. Temporary Parthood

Starting from the formal characterization of fourdimensionalism (perdurantism) provided by Theodore Sider, I study the interconnections between the theories of parthood simpliciter (classical mereologies) and the theories of temporary parthood (parthood at a time). On the basis of this formal analysis, I propose a definition of temporary parthood in terms of parthood simpliciter that does not c...

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...

Group Membership and Social Influence

Can people influence others solely by virtue of shared group membership? To address this and related questions, we offer a theory of group-mediated social influence and then test it in a standardized collective task setting. The theory capitalizes on uncertainty reduction principles found in two longstanding social psychological traditions: social identity theory and status characteristics theo...

Work Group Membership

Research Proposal: Group Membership