Journal article
Status Characteristics and Performance: An Assessment of their Effects on Acceptance of Influence
Sociological perspectives, Vol.35(3), pp.451-473
09/01/1992
DOI: 10.2307/1389329
Abstract
According to the theory of status characteristics, both status characteristics and performance information are combined to arrive at a single evaluation of the group member (combining). In this paper, an alternative formulation is proposed which maintains that status characteristics are used as a means of forming evaluations of group members only when members do not have access to performance information. When such information is available, it is used in arriving at an evaluation for the person (balancing). Empirical assessment of these positions indicates that combining occurs when status characteristics and performance information are consistent and that balancing occurs when status characteristics and performance information are inconsistent. Implications for the empirical scope of the theory of status characteristics are considered.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Status Characteristics and Performance: An Assessment of their Effects on Acceptance of Influence
- Creators
- Leslie Margolin - University of IowaJames C. Kimberly - University of Nebraska–LincolnHugh P. Whitt - University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Sociological perspectives, Vol.35(3), pp.451-473
- DOI
- 10.2307/1389329
- ISSN
- 0731-1214
- eISSN
- 1533-8673
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/1992
- Academic Unit
- Counselor Education
- Record Identifier
- 9984371118502771
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