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Item Effects of Group Status and Cognitive Appraisal Prime on Integrative Complexity in a Decision Making Context(2009) Van Allen, Katherine Lynn; Stangor, Charles; Psychology; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Integrative complexity has been shown to influence information-processing and decision-making in different social situations. The present research assessed the effects of group status and cognitive appraisal prime on complexity in a group decision-making context. Experiment 1 assessed group status effects, and Experiment 2 tested whether priming threat or challenge would moderate those effects. Both experiments found that minority members showed greater complexity than majority members. Experiment 2 found that appraisal prime moderated the relationship between status and complexity. Minority members receiving the threat prime were the most complex, while majority members in the threat and control conditions were the least complex. The mediating roles of cognitive appraisal, anxiety, and coping expectancy were assessed, but none were found to be significant mediators of complexity.Item Measuring Collective Mindfulness and Exploring Its Nomological Network(2004-04-29) Knight, Andrew Pierce; Klein, Katherine J; Gelfand, Michele J; Hanges, Paul J; PsychologyCollective mindfulness was conceptualized as a prerequisite to achieving organizational reliability in the face of complexity and tight coupling. However, researchers have yet to measure collective mindfulness, precluding an assessment of its construct validity. In the current study I attempted to fill this gap by quantitatively measuring collective mindfulness and relating it to a number of characteristics and outcomes. I hypothesized that collective mindfulness can predict organizational reliability, with respect to safety and customer service quality. I also investigated the relationship between collective mindfulness and a number of constructs to begin assessing construct validity. The results of survey data collected from 182 employees, 570 customers, and 330 supervisor reports of 51 community swimming pools suggested that collective mindfulness can be measured in an organizational context and used to predict safety and customer service quality. Further, I found collective mindfulness to be related in expected ways with a number of constructs.