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Does Social Cohesion Determine Motivation in Combat?: An Old Question with an Old Answer
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Based on a new Army War College study of unit cohesion in the Iraq War, Wong et al. as mentioned in this paper argue that successful unit performance is determined by social cohesion (the strength of interpersonal bonds amon...Abstract:
Based on a new Army War College study of unit cohesion in the Iraq War, Wong et al. argue that successful unit performance is determined by social cohesion (the strength of interpersonal bonds amon...read more
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Armed Groups and Sexual Violence: When Is Wartime Rape Rare?
TL;DR: In this article, a particular pattern of wartime violence, the relative absence of sexual violence on the part of many armed groups, has been explored, which has important policy implications: If s...
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Healthcare workers' attitudes to working during pandemic influenza: a qualitative study
Jonathan Ives,Sheila Greenfield,Jayne Parry,Heather Draper,Christine Gratus,Judith Petts,Tom Sorell,Sue Wilson +7 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that barriers to working lie along an ability/willingness continuum, and that absenteeism may be reduced by taking steps to prevent barriers to willingness becoming perceived barriers to ability.
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Are groups more or less than the sum of their members? The moderating role of individual identification.
TL;DR: A heuristic framework that divides formation of work or task groups into two steps is proposed, one of which emphasizes shared common identity and promotes emotional bonds, and the other takes increasingly differentiated roles that improve performance through specialization, moral responsibility, and efficiency.
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Coercive Institutions and State Violence under Authoritarianism
TL;DR: Greitens et al. as discussed by the authors studied the internal security architecture of three anti-communist authoritarian regimes in Taiwan, the Philippines, and South Korea and compared them to similar processes in Communist authoritarian regimes such as North Korea and China.
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Rape as a Practice of War: Toward a Typology of Political Violence:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that some cases of conflict-related rape are better understood as a practice, violence that has not be considered as a strategy of war, rather than a war crime.
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Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes.
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that people are sometimes unaware of the existence of a stimulus that influenced a response, unaware of its existence, and unaware that the stimulus has affected the response.
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The relation between group cohesiveness and performance: An integration.
Brian Mullen,Carolyn Copper +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analytic integration of the relation between group cohesiveness and performance was reported, and the results of this analysis suggest that the more direct effect may be from performance-to-cohesiveness rather than from Cohesiveness to performance.
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The Development of an Instrument to Assess Cohesion in Sport Teams: The Group Environment Questionnaire
TL;DR: The Group Environment Questionnaire (GEQ) as discussed by the authors was developed to assess group cohesion in a sport team and is composed of four scales reflecting the constructs of group integration-task.
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Beyond behaviorism: on the automaticity of higher mental processes.
TL;DR: The authors consider the common philosophical commitment to determinism by both schools of thought, and how the radical behaviorists' thesis of the determined nature of higher mental processes is being pursued today in social cognition research on automaticity.
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Cohesion and Disintegration in the Wehrmacht in World War II
Edward Shils,Morris Janowitz +1 more