CitationDatabase: PsycINFO [ Chapter ] Conflict in groups. Levine, John M.; Thompson, Leigh Higgins, Edward Tory (Ed); Kruglanski, Arie W. (Ed), (1996). Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles. , (pp. 745-776). New York, NY, US: Guilford Press, x, 948 pp. Abstract concerned with intragroup conflict, or conflict between members of a group over how controversial questions should be resolved and how scarce resources should be apportioned / analyze conflict associated with the distribution of information and outcomes in small groups / seek to clarify the origins of intragroup conflict and the techniques that groups use to handle this conflict / [focus] on the formation distribution and then on outcome distribution / emphasizes the psychological processes that underlie the production and resolution of conflict / discuss how members of small groups use conflict avoidance, conflict resolution, and conflict creation strategies for dealing wth the distribution of informaton and outcomes / argue that investigators who study in groups should devote more attention to interpersonal, as oppposed to intrapersonal (cognitive), processes (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
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