Status characteristics and performance: an assessment of their effects on acceptance of influence

Article Abstract:

Group members are likely to focus on performance feedback when evaluating the task ability and accepting influence of co-members. When performance feedback is unavailable, then status information serves as the evaluating criteria, although members opt for specific status characteristics rather than diffuse status. This strong preference for performance informaiton, however, does not disregard that there are those who rely on status information and that as a rule, group members do not exercise selectivity in information processing to produce a composite of an individual's characteristics.

Research, Social status

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Gender and interpersonal task behaviors: status expectation accounts

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted on the utility of status characteristics theory in accounting for research regarding gender differences in interpersonal task situations. Support exists for the argument that differences in stereotypical gender task behaviors are a direct function of status differences or of attempts to cope with status differences. The results indicate that status characteristics theory can provide a set of interrelated explanations of the relationship of gender to interpersonal task behaviors.

Analysis, Demographic aspects, Interpersonal relations, Sex differences, Social interaction

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Rejecting other's influence: Negative sentiment and status in task groups

Article Abstract:

The approaches towards two competing sentiments like sentiments as constituent elements of expectations and sentiments as moderators of expectations are analyzed. An experimental design based on the standard experimental setting developed by the theorists supported the second approach on 'sentiment as moderator' model varying between the four experimental models.

Psychological aspects, Evaluation, Influence, Social groups, Sentimentality

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