Similar diversity constellations have sometimes been found to aid and sometimes to hamper group processes and performance. Previous research has revealed that diversity can promote group functioning when perceived in terms of differences ("we're all different individuals") but disrupt group...

Workplace territoriality, while a subject of on-going inquiry in environmental psychology, has been relatively ignored in conflict research. For example, we know that contemporary organizations spend millions redesigning workspaces, and incur more millions in damage as a result of the need to...

We introduce the concept of faultline distance that reflects the extent to which subgroups formed by faultlines diverge as a result of accumulated differences across them (e.g., two members of age 20 are closer in age to two members of an opposing faultline of age 25 than of two members of age...