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Group Processes - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Groups tend to attract people who are already similar before they join.
      - Groups tend to operate in ways that encourage similarity in the members
- - - - A kind of decision process in which maintaining group cohesiveness and solidarity is more important than considering the facts in a realistic manner
      - Antecedents of groupthink
        
        The group is highly cohesive
        
        Group isolation
        
        A directive leader
        
        Poor decision making procedure
      - Symptoms of groupthink
        
        Illusion of unvulnerability
        
        Belief in moral correctness of the group
        
        Stereotypical view of out-group
        
        Self-cencorship
      - Defective decision making
        
        Incomplete survey alternativeness
        
        failure to examine risks of the favored alternative
        
        Poor information search
        
        failure to develop contingency plans
      - Steps to make group think less likely
        
        Remain impartial
        
        Seek outside opinions
        
        Create subgroups
        
        Seek anonymous opinions
  - - - Persuasive arguments
      - Social comparison
  - - - Transactional leaders
      - Transformational leaders
      - Master in that two styles
- - - - Tit-for-tat strategy
      - Allow individuals rather than opposing groups to resolve a conflict
  - - - Conclusions: verbal communication did increase the amount of money both sides won because it fostered trust instead of adding fuel to the competitive fires
- - - - The presence of others makes us more alert
      - People are often concerned about how others are evaluating them
      - centers on how distracting other people can be
  - - - Women tend to be higher than men in relational interdependence
    - - Getting lost in a crowd can lead to an unleashing of behaviors that we would never dream of exhibiting by ourselves.
      - Deindividuation makes people feel less accountability
      - Deindividuation increases obedience to group norms
      - Deindividuation online