{"title":"Majority and Minority Subgroup Argumentation Messages","authors":"S. Beck","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2019.1603317","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Past research suggests that majority and minority subgroups influence group members in different ways. This exploratory study examined the communication behind such influence, specifically the argumentation messages majority and minority subgroup members use in decision-making. Using an argumentation coding scheme to analyze city commission meetings, communicative differences were found in relation to the two subgroups. Specifically, majority members focused on coalition formation messages while minority members focused on substantive argumentation. In general, the results provide an explanatory communicative foundation for the cognitive outcomes found in previous majority/minority influence literature.","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2019-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2019.1603317","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2019.1603317","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Past research suggests that majority and minority subgroups influence group members in different ways. This exploratory study examined the communication behind such influence, specifically the argumentation messages majority and minority subgroup members use in decision-making. Using an argumentation coding scheme to analyze city commission meetings, communicative differences were found in relation to the two subgroups. Specifically, majority members focused on coalition formation messages while minority members focused on substantive argumentation. In general, the results provide an explanatory communicative foundation for the cognitive outcomes found in previous majority/minority influence literature.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.