Decisions, Values and Groups
Reports from the First Interdisciplinary Conference in the Behavioral Science Division Held at the University of New Mexico
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1960
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Editor: Dorthy Willner
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 2 1 5 3 - 6
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 0 9 2 3 7 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 5 3 9 5 - 7
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Request a sales quoteDecisions, Values and Groups, Volume 1 contains the proceedings of the First Interdisciplinary Conference of the Behavioral Sciences Division of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, held at the University of New Mexico in 1957. The papers explore the roles of decisions, values, and groups in the behavioral sciences and cover topics ranging from the use of mathematical models in decision making to the contribution of the laboratory to the study of individual differences. Theoretical contributions to small group research are also discussed. This book is comprised of 22 chapters and begins with an overview of the merging of mathematical and statistical techniques with the empirical method in the study of behavior, as well as the place of decisions, values, and groups in behavioral science research. The reader is then introduced to the applications of mathematical models to decision processes, with particular reference to the automation of decision making. The following chapters focus on conceptualizations and designs for research in values and evaluative processes; theoretical aspects of small group research; and psychodynamic patterns of behavior; and special problems in the military. A non-introspective approach to the study of human motivation is described. This volume will be of interest to behavioral scientists and social scientists.
Foreword
Introduction
Editor's Preface
I. Mathematical Models in Decision Processes
A Perspective on Automation and Decision Making
Models, Meaning and Theories
Some Personality Correlates of Decision Making under Conditions of Risk
The Formation of Hypotheses and Styles in the Process of Solving a Logical Task
Stochastic Choice and Subjective Probability
II. Conceptualizations and Designs for Research in Values and Evaluative Processes
The Contribution of the Laboratory to the Study of Individual Differences
A Tentative Theory of the Structure of Conscience
Values in Person Cognition
Personal Values and Group Interaction
The Organization of Microcultures
III. Theoretical Contributions to Small Group Research
A Commentary on Small Group Research
Common Fate, Similarity and Other Indices of the Status of Aggregates of Persons as Social Entities
Seeking and Avoiding Self-Evaluation by Working Individually or in Groups
Two Variables Affecting the Message in Communication
Behavior in Groups: The Development of a Scale to Measure Individual Prominence
The Influence of Propaganda without Social Support
IV. Psychodynamic Patterns of Behavior
Neurophysiological Basis for Behavior
Hostility: Theory and Experimental Investigation
The Problem of Vicarious Experience
Report on the Psycho-Social Organization of the Family and Mental Health
Depression: Definition and Determinants
V. Special Military Problems
A Non-Introspective Approach to the Study of Human Motivation
Human Parameters of Space
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1960
- Imprint: Pergamon
- No. of pages: 378
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483121536
- Hardback ISBN: 9780080092379
- eBook ISBN: 9781483153957
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