A Theory of Group Structures: Volume II. Empirical Tests

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 11. A Method for Strong Inference

• A Procedure for Using Strong Inference

Chapter 12. Some Basic Results

• The Faucheux-Mackenzie Experiment
• The Berkeley Eight-Hour Experiments
• Revised Strong Inference Tree

Chapter 13. Channel Preferences

• The Berkeley Channel Renting Experiment
• The Carnegie-Mellon Channel Rating Experiments

Chapter 14. Group Preferences for Type of Structure

• The Waterloo Circle Experiment
• The Waterloo Lutheran Chain Experiment
• The Waterloo Lutheran Channel-Renting Groups

Chapter 15. Ex Ante Test Implications of the Theory

• Waterloo Structural Adoption Experiment
• Appendix 15.1 Confederate's Answer Sheet, Normal and Delay Times
• Appendix 15.2 Persuasion Messages Used by Confederates

Chapter 16. A Test for the Validity of the Axiom of Consummation and a Model for Interpersonal Hostility

• Hostility
• A Model for Changes in Levels of Interpersonal Hostility Axiom of Consummation Experiment
• Appendix 16.1 The Questionnaire Administered After the End of the Experiment for the Mackenzie-Beynon Experiment

Chapter 17. Summarizing the Empirical Work

• Part A. Basic Theoretical Laws
• Part B. Channel Renting Experiments
• Part C. Problem Complexity, Difficulty of Organizing, and Some Voting Behavior
• Part D. Structural Preference
• Part E. Learning, Multiple Structures, and Stability of Hierarchies
• Part F. Adoption Processes and Mapping Functions
• Part G. Controlling Group Structures
• Part H. Axiom of Consummation, Structural Change, and Hostility
• Some Limitations of This Work

References

Author Index

Subject Index