Norm violators as threats and opportunities: The many faces of deviance in groups

Levine, John M.; Marques, José M.

doi:10.1177/1368430216657415

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“…In light of the fundamental role that groups play in human affairs and the ubiquity of factional disagreement, majority–minority relations are likely to remain an important topic of social psychological inquiry. Although research on majority and minority influence in the attitude change tradition has declined over the last several years, there has been much recent interest in the motivational underpinnings of deviant behavior and the positive functions that deviates can serve in groups (Jetten & Hornsey, 2011, 2014; Levine & Marques, 2016). These topics are likely to elicit continuing research attention.…”

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Factional conflict in groups: How majorities and minorities relate to one another

Levine

2017

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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Disagreement between numerically larger (majority) and smaller (minority) factions in groups is both common and consequential. For these reasons, there is a long tradition of social psychological interest in the causes and consequences of such disagreement. Early work focused on minority members’ movement toward the majority (majority influence) and majority members’ (negative) perceptions and evaluations of those who refused to move. Later work focused on similarities and differences between majority influence and its mirror opposite, minority influence, and on majority members’ (sometimes relatively positive) perceptions and evaluations of minority members. This paper summarizes current knowledge on these topics and suggests promising avenues for future research.

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Factional conflict in groups: How majorities and minorities relate to one another

Levine

2017

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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“…This is especially true when the deviants are ingroup members, giving rise to the “black sheep effect” (Marques & Páez, ), in which ingroup deviants are judged more harshly than comparable outgroup deviants. However, groups frequently face challenges that require them to innovate or adapt to novel circumstances (Abrams, Randsley de Moura, Marques, & Hutchison, ; Barone & Jewell, ; Levine & Marques, ), and leaders are required to direct or defend such innovative strategies.…”

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Deviance Credit: Tolerance of Deviant Ingroup Leaders is Mediated by Their Accrual of Prototypicality and Conferral of Their Right to Be Supported

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Journal of Social Issues

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Leaders often deviate from group norms or social conventions, sometimes innovating and sometimes engaging in serious transgressions or illegality. We propose that group members are prone to be more permissive toward both forms of deviance in the case of ingroup leaders compared to other ingroup members or outgroup members and leaders. This granting of “deviance credit” is hypothesized to be underpinned by perceptions of an ingroup leader's prototypicality of the group (“accrual”) and belief that occupancy of the role confers a right to be supported (“conferral”). Analyses of data from four studies demonstrate that both accrual and conferral (1) mediate evaluations, inclusion and punishment of deviant leaders, and (2) they make independent contributions to deviance credit. Implications for leadership, marginalization, corruption, innovation, and transformation are discussed.

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“… 51 In addition, recent research suggests that dissenters have a positive impact on group decisions. 52 , 53 …”

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How to Make Health and Risk Communication on Social Media More “Social” During COVID-19

Gesser‐Edelsburg¹

2021

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Social media have changed the way citizens participate in and express opinions about government policy. Social media serve organizations in achieving four main goals: interacting with citizens; fostering citizen participation; furthering open government; and analyzing/monitoring public opinion and activities. We contend that despite the importance of social media, international and local health organizations have been slow to adopt to them, primarily due to the discrepancy between intraorganizational discourse modes and the type of discourse suitable for dialogue with the public. In this perspective paper, we recommend strategies for such public dialogue based on understanding the challenges faced by organizations on the road to becoming more “social” in their social media presence and in their health and risk communication. Subsequently, we propose an integrative approach that combines three complementary paths: (1) putting the “social” back into health organizations’ culture by inserting more “social” content into the internal organizational discourse through consultation with experts from different fields, including those who diverge from the scientific consensus. (2) Using strategies to enable health organizations to respond to the public on social networks, based on health communications research and studies on emerging infectious disease (EID) communication. (3) Engaging the public on social media based on the participatory approach, which considers the public as a partner that understands science and can work with the organizations to develop an open and innovative pandemic realm by using crowdsourcing to solve complex global health problems. For each path, we define the current challenges, among which are (1) overcoming organizational groupthink and hidden profiles, (2) treating all unofficial information as misleading, and (3) insufficient public engagement in solving complex global problems. We then offer recommendations for dealing with each challenge.

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Norm violators as threats and opportunities: The many faces of deviance in groups

Cited by 21 publications

References 34 publications

Factional conflict in groups: How majorities and minorities relate to one another

Factional conflict in groups: How majorities and minorities relate to one another

Deviance Credit: Tolerance of Deviant Ingroup Leaders is Mediated by Their Accrual of Prototypicality and Conferral of Their Right to Be Supported

How to Make Health and Risk Communication on Social Media More “Social” During COVID-19

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