{"title":"Conceptualization and Measurement of Peer Collaboration in Higher Education: A Systematic Review","authors":"Verena Schürmann, Nicki Marquardt, Daniel Bodemer","doi":"10.1177/10464964231200191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964231200191","url":null,"abstract":"Collaboration is a construct comprising diverse definitions and frameworks. Additionally, being a latent variable and because of its complexity and interactive nature, collaboration is difficult to measure. Therefore, this systematic literature review was guided by two fundamental questions: what to measure and how to measure. Through the review and synthesis of 28 carefully selected studies we derived an integrative framework displaying indicators for peer collaboration in higher education and beyond. Moreover, the results give insights into measurement approaches of collaboration comprising information on data collection and analysis as well as contextual factors (e.g., task type, time).","PeriodicalId":47912,"journal":{"name":"Small Group Research","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135739823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jacqueline N. Lane, Paul M. Leonardi, Noshir S. Contractor, Leslie A. DeChurch
{"title":"Teams in the Digital Workplace: Technology’s Role for Communication, Collaboration, and Performance","authors":"Jacqueline N. Lane, Paul M. Leonardi, Noshir S. Contractor, Leslie A. DeChurch","doi":"10.1177/10464964231200015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964231200015","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the need for theoretical advancements in understanding team processes and the impact of technology on teams. Specifically, it examines the use of digital collaboration technologies by organizational teams and their effect on team communication and collaboration. Using the concept of affordances as a theoretical lens, the paper explores the potential relationships between technology affordances and essential team processes. It also provides an agenda for future research on social technologies and teams as well as novel methodological approaches for better understanding the ways in which digital technologies are affecting team processes and performance in the workplace.","PeriodicalId":47912,"journal":{"name":"Small Group Research","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conceptualizing Mood Influences on Information Processing in Groups via Dominant Cognitive Processing Strategies","authors":"Verlin B. Hinsz, Michael D. Robinson","doi":"10.1177/10464964231201102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964231201102","url":null,"abstract":"This conceptual integration addresses how positive and negative mood states influence information processing in groups. In addition to the impact of mood on attention and arousal, the review develops the notion of dominant cognitive processing strategies that mediate the influence of positive and negative moods on information processing in groups. Positive moods are proposed to reinforce dominant cognitive processing strategies while negative moods inhibit or revise such dominant cognitive processing strategies. Principles derived from several mood-cognition models are applied to group information processes related to attention, encoding, storage, retrieval, processing objectives, response, and feedback. The impacts of mood states are discussed in relation to group themes of convergence-divergence, commonality-uniqueness, and accentuation-attenuation of cognitive processes. The analysis leads to new implications for small group topics such as metacognition, group learning, motivated information processing in groups, communication, mood dynamics, and mood composition. The principles described can inspire numerous directions for future research.","PeriodicalId":47912,"journal":{"name":"Small Group Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136061868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Call for proposals Small Group Research 2026 Review issue","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/10464964231195123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964231195123","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47912,"journal":{"name":"Small Group Research","volume":"54 1","pages":"749 - 752"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65573725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Team Membership Change and Team Effectiveness: The Role of Informational Attributes","authors":"Eunhee Kim, B. Bell","doi":"10.1177/10464964231195537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964231195537","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the impact of informational attributes of team membership change on affective emergent states and team effectiveness, and how members’ emotional intelligence (EI) shapes this impact. Results from two laboratory studies showed that change predictability and rationality affected team potency and identification. These emergent states had unique effects on team effectiveness over and above the effects of team process. Results also showed that members’ EI moderated the effects of change predictability and rationality. These findings emphasize the importance of membership change attributes, affective emergent states, and team composition in determining team effectiveness after a membership change.","PeriodicalId":47912,"journal":{"name":"Small Group Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43415163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandra Hoffmann, Anna-Maria Schellhorn, Marcel Ritter, P. Sachse, Thomas K. Maran
{"title":"Blink Synchronization Increases Over Time and Predicts Problem-Solving Performance in Virtual Teams","authors":"Alexandra Hoffmann, Anna-Maria Schellhorn, Marcel Ritter, P. Sachse, Thomas K. Maran","doi":"10.1177/10464964231195618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964231195618","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual collaboration is crucial nowadays, while shared attention plays a vital role in problem-solving. This study examines the relationship between blink synchronization, an index of shared attention, and problem-solving performance in a virtual setting. Thirty-seven dyadic teams completed a familiarization and problem-solving task. We hypothesized that blink synchronization would be established during familiarization, impacting performance. Additionally, we expected blink synchronization to increase over time. Results revealed that blink synchronization predicted teams’ problem-solving performance, and blink synchronization increased over time. Our findings shed light on the importance of blink synchronization for shared mental modeling and offer practical insights for virtual teamwork.","PeriodicalId":47912,"journal":{"name":"Small Group Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41886806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Team Ties, Embeddedness, and Turnover Intentions: Integrating Social Networks and Field Theory","authors":"M. Sahoo, N. Janardhanan, Srinivas Ekkirala","doi":"10.1177/10464964231195101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964231195101","url":null,"abstract":"Although social networks have been examined in teams, an understanding of the consequences of team social network ties on employees’ attitudes beyond team boundaries is hard to come by. Integrating insights from social networks and gestalt field theory, we examine interactive effects of centrality and density of inclusion and exclusion ties in teams on the relationship between employees’ community embeddedness—connectedness with the broader social context—and turnover intentions. In a multi-source field study of 215 employees in 34 teams, we demonstrate that inclusion and exclusion centrality and team exclusion density weaken the effect of community embeddedness on turnover intention.","PeriodicalId":47912,"journal":{"name":"Small Group Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47558128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cheng-Chen Lin, Szu-Chi Lu, Hsiao-Ling Chen, Fong-Yi Lai
{"title":"Simultaneous Effect of the Workplace Exchange Relationship on Employees’ Helping Behavior","authors":"Cheng-Chen Lin, Szu-Chi Lu, Hsiao-Ling Chen, Fong-Yi Lai","doi":"10.1177/10464964231191997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964231191997","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the simultaneous effect of leader-member exchange (LMX) and coworker exchange (CWX) on employees’ helping behavior. It proposes that the congruence and incongruence of LMX and CWX have both a linear and curvilinear relationship with helping behavior. Hypotheses were tested on a final sample of 881 participants at hospitals in Taiwan. After controlling for relevant variables, results of a polynomial regression and response surface methodology indicate a positive linear relationship between the simultaneous effect of the congruence of LMX and CWX and employees’ helping behavior, but do not confirm a curvilinear relationship, whereas the simultaneous effect of the incongruence of LMX and CWX has a curvilinear relationship with employees’ helping behavior but not a linear relationship. The theoretical and practical implications, strengths and limitations, and directions for future research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47912,"journal":{"name":"Small Group Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44180753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Massey, Mitzi M. Montoya, Binny M. Samuel, J. Windeler
{"title":"Presence and Team Performance in Synchronous Collaborative Virtual Environments","authors":"A. Massey, Mitzi M. Montoya, Binny M. Samuel, J. Windeler","doi":"10.1177/10464964231185748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964231185748","url":null,"abstract":"Synchronous collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) allow distributed teams to interact and work. CVEs afford a sense of presence, or “being there” in the workspace, as well as the opportunity to “do there” via interactions within the environment. However, there has been limited empirical evidence to support the link of presence and team performance, especially for CVE work. We identified multiple dimensions of presence that reflect relationships known to be essential to collaborative work and conducted a CVE experiment with 80 teams. Our results suggest certain aspects of presence are more important than others in driving virtual team performance.","PeriodicalId":47912,"journal":{"name":"Small Group Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41647878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Faultlines, Familiarity, Communication: Predictors and Moderators of Team Success in Escape Rooms","authors":"Rebeka O. Szabó, F. Battiston, Júlia Koltai","doi":"10.1177/10464964231183456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10464964231183456","url":null,"abstract":"We contribute to faultline research by identifying familiarity and cross-subgroup communication as potential moderators in the relationship between diversity faultline and team performance. We employ a novel experimental design utilizing escape rooms as a noninterventional social laboratory, enabling us to capture real-time interactions among 40 teams engaged in problem-solving activities. We find that team familiarity has a negative influence and a suppression effect on success. Faultline affects team success negatively when faultline-induced subgroups do not communicate enough with each other. Our work contributes to a better understanding of complex processes and interdependencies that lead to team success or failure.","PeriodicalId":47912,"journal":{"name":"Small Group Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49361205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}