PSYC 3430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Baby Boomers, Structural Cohesion
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Similarity principle - members of cohesive groups tend to like. Olympics: when collective efficacy and esprit de corps you have higher levels of teamwork and thus cohesion feeling of unity commitment, confidence, and example team canada in the 2010. Cohesion: carron"s general conceptual model of cohesion offered four general antecedents of cohesion, environmental - ex. Social pressures (e. g. , not there to experience the joke, unable to meet with your group because you live far away, cannot afford the sport you cannot experience the sport: personal - ex. Gender, race, age: leadership - leadership style, team factors - ex. Shared experiences of the group, stability of the group (open vs. closed groups), norms, roles (structural cohesion) Similarity - do individual perform similar behaviours or resemble on another. Proximity - how close together are the individuals in the group: the use of words like we, us vs. I, me, myself: also assessments - group environmental scale, perceived.