Advances in Group Processes, Volume 11

by Barry Markovsky (Editor), Karen Heimer (Editor), Jodi O'Brien (Editor)

This volume offers a diverse array of chapters. Areas covered consist of an extension and clarification of theoretical research on social networks; the emergence of trust and cooperative norms under conditions of uncertainty; social identity processes; and the emergent processes in discussion groups and teams.

239 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1994

About the author

I'm a social psychologist. I've been lucky to have enjoyed a long career full of exciting research projects on such topics as networks, power, status, justice, and how people influence one another's perceptions and beliefs.

For the last few years I’ve backed off academic publishing and focused instead on writing for everyday people. The result has been, among other things, a series of much-read articles at TheConversation.com, and this new book, Everyday Extraordinary. It turns out that most of what I've learned about other sociological and psychological topics helps to explain why popular beliefs in astrology, ESP, ghosts, UFOs, and many other fringe claims are held so dearly by so many.

In 2020 I retired from my job as a sociology professor and moved to Western North Carolina where I write (and hike and play music and cook and socialize and live) to my heart’s content.