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10 Jul 09

10 Rules That Govern Groups « PsyBlog

  • 2. Initiation rites improve group evaluations


    Existing groups don't let others join for free: the cost is sometimes monetary, sometimes intellectual, sometimes physical—but usually there is an initiation rite, even if it's well disguised.


    Aronson and Mills (1959) tested the effect of initiation rites by making one group of women read passages from sexually explicit novels. Afterwards they rated the group they had joined much more positively than those who hadn't had to undergo the humiliating initiation. So, not only do groups want to test you, but they want you to value your membership.

  • Group norms are extremely pervasive: this becomes all the more obvious when we start breaking them.
12 Sep 08

Gender based Barriers to Effective Collaboration: A Case Study on Children's Safeguard Partnerships

This paper explores gender related barriers to
interagency collaboration in statutory children safeguard partnerships
against a theoretical framework that considers individuals,
professions and organisations interacting as part of a complex
adaptive system. We argue that gender-framed obstacles to effective
communication between culturally discrepant agencies can ultimately
impact on the effectiveness of policy delivery,. We focused our
research on three partnership structures in Sefton Metropolitan
Borough in order to observe how interactions occur, whether the
agencies involved perceive their occupational environment as being
gender affected and whether they believe this can hinder effective
collaboration with other biased organisations. Our principal empirical
findings indicate that there is a general awareness amongst
professionals of the role that gender plays in each of the agencies
reviewed, that gender may well constitute a barrier to effective
communication, but there is a sense in which there is little scope for
change in the short term. We aim to signal here, however, the need to
change against the risk of service failure.

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30 Jun 08

The textbook students built: computer science students challenging the traditional textbook

  • Being created by students for students, this type of textbook can offer tangible advantages. Each of the authors of the textbook have gone through the courses that they are writing about, so presumably they have a better idea of what areas of the course are difficult and can explain in their own words how they got certain concepts to click. Since the students know which materials are covered in the course, they make sure that the necessary sections are covered in the wiki. However, no section gets ignored — as happens often with traditional textbooks.
01 Mar 08

ReCAPTCHA: Fight Spam And Digitize Books | Compiler from Wired.com

Thanks to the wonderful world of spammers most websites these days rely on CAPTCHA images to force users to prove they are human before accepting comments or other user feedback. In fact humans solve roughly 60 million CAPTCHAs a day according to a the people behind reCAPTCHA a group that wants to leverage that effort to help digitizing books.

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