Individual Behavior and Group Membership

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...

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...

Towards Understanding and Modeling Individual Behavior and Group Dynamics

Understanding human behavior is a very complex task. In this paper we present our initial thoughts on modeling and automatic recognition of human activities. We argue that to successfully model human behavior, we need to consider both individual behavior and group dynamics. To demonstrate these theoretical approaches, we also introduce two experimental systems for collecting experimental data o...

Work Group Membership