re: Group Power. Has anyone tried/experienced/been subjected to Star
Power - see http://www.stsintl.com/schools-charities/star_power.html.
Once I was on an in-house management training course attended by about
25 employees, when they decided to use it. It turned nasty but revealing.
Thanks
Robert C
On 4/11/12 10:06 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
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I just stumbled on this message that was never answered. It was in
RED so I figured I better answer it. See below.
In fact, many warrior groups kidnap the women AND children from other
groups. Or even take the men as slaves. This would seem to be stupid
from in inclusive fitness point of view, but makes sense from a group
selection point of view.
Nick
*From:*[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
*On Behalf Of *Russ Abbott
*Sent:* Wednesday, August 24, 2011 12:15 PM
*To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
*Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] vol 98, iss.25 psychology cont'd
Favoring members of one's own group is not incompatible with letting
new people in. Many religions proselytize, for example. (Also, clubs
and political parties recruit; countries add new citizens; etc.) Still
members (new or longstanding) are often favored over non-members.
/-- Russ /
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:45 AM, peggy miller
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
At the risk of being too thorough, I wanted to comment on Russ's point:
"For example, group members will often favor other group members over
> outsiders even if the outsider is the better choice for the individual
> to make on some objective basis. This is often an evolved
preference ."> Groups that are successful in having their members
behave in this way
> have a better chance to survive as a group."
I would add the word "temporarily" at the end of Ross's last quoted
sentence. Over time, groups that do not allow "outsiders" in, tend to
be inbred and develop major genetic problems and often die out or
remain very very small in number due to losing most of members from
either genetically inherited health problems or members moving due to
boredom with group cause of lack of original thought included into
their overall thinking or due to economically frozen structure. I
think it is argued in Emergence theory that those behaviors that are
sort of "beyond the pale", that operate on the fringe, tend to help
the central group develop better as they witness these more unusual
forms of behavior.
Peggy
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