Despite strong evidence that task group status hierarchy instability is dysfunctional, little research has considered the processes that lead to hierarchy instability. In this paper, we examine the destabilizing effects of dissent about the hierarchy that is expressed as status conflict in the...

It has been shown that concession timing can influence a negotiator's satisfaction with and judgment of the negotiation partner, the quality of the object, and the agreed upon price (Kwon & Weingart, 2004). Study 1 tested whether the concession timing effect holds when a negotiator believes the...

We develop and test a theoretical framework for understanding how cognitive and affective processes (cognitive and affective integration) influence the way in which disagreements (task and process) among group members affect their performance (individual and group level performance). We use this...

Purpose – The purpose of this chapter is to introduce new methods to behavioral research on group negotiation. Design/methodology/approach – We describe three techniques from the field of Machine Learning and discuss their possible application to modeling dynamic processes in group...

Intensive care units (ICUs) provide care to the most severely ill hospitalized patients. Although ICUs increasingly rely on interprofessional teams to provide critical care, little about actual teamwork in this context is well understood. The ICU team is typically comprised of physicians or...

In this quasi-experimental, multi-method study, we compare the performance of high-power organizational teams to low-power organizational teams on a decision-making task. Team power is based on the control of resources that enables a team to affect others in the company. We find that low-power...

In this paper, we present a theoretical model of the spread of conflict within teams, which we refer to as conflict contagion. This model brings a multi-level perspective to the process of intragroup conflict by showing how the presence of interpersonal conflict can spread to other group members...