Intergroup Communication Research Articles

Group chorusing as an intragroup signal in the greater ani, a communally breeding bird

AbstractGroup living often requires maintaining dynamic and varied relationships with fellow group members, while simultaneously monitoring and interacting with external competitors. Group members in many social species vocalize together to produce duets or choruses—coordinated, often conspicuous vocal displays—that may play a role in these interactions. Compared with male–female duets, however, relatively little research exists on the function and adaptive significance of group choruses, which involve three or more individuals. Here we investigate chorusing behavior in the greater ani (Crotophaga major), a communally breeding cuckoo that nests in stable social groups of four to eight unrelated individuals. Groups may remain together for several years on the same nesting territory, and groups occasionally destroy each other's clutches in conflicts over high‐quality territories. We asked whether the raucous, highly stereotyped choruses performed by ani groups are primarily used for intra‐ or intergroup communication, and whether they contain information about the identity of the social group and the number of birds vocalizing. Behavioral observations and acoustic recordings from three breeding seasons revealed that choruses typically occurred during social interactions within the group (78% of choruses) or in response to a predator or extra‐group individual (17%) and only rarely in intergroup interactions (4%). Consistent with this finding, choruses did not reliably reflect the number of birds vocalizing, and we found only limited evidence for group‐specific acoustic signatures (driven by a single group whose choruses were highly distinct). These results suggest that group choruses play an important role in intra‐group signaling, potentially in contexts such as group formation, reinforcement of social bonds within the group, and/or collective decision‐making, and they motivate new research questions about the role of collective signaling in social evolution.

A nested-ring exact algorithm for simple basic group communication topology optimization in Multi-USV systems

This paper addresses the optimization problem of simple basic group communication topology (SBGCT) in multi-USV systems. In SBGCT, not only the fewer communication connections with lower communication costs are used to group USVs and establish intra-group and inter-group communication, but also each USV can obtain the data of all the other USVs without search algorithms. A nested-ring exact algorithm (NREA) is proposed to build the communication topology of minimizing the total cost based on minimizing the max cost with a nested-ring shape. The communication cost based on distance, weather, and occlusion impact is designed to evaluate the communication reliability of wireless data transceivers commonly used on USVs. In addition, a strategy of channel allocation is proposed to avoid interfering with the co-channel. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithms.

Experiencing VOICES: police and public reactions to an intergroup communication intervention

ABSTRACT This paper analyzes police and public reactions to an intergroup-communication intervention developed and tested in Santa Barbara, California. We discuss the theory underlying the development of the intervention as well as its implementation as a means of improving relationships between police officers and members of the Hispanic community. Based on thematic analysis of interviews with program participants, we provide qualitative evidence about police and public reactions to the intervention. The data presented herein indicate that the intervention improved empathy and trust between participants from both groups. These results suggest that interventions based on principles of intergroup communication could be a useful mechanism for improving relationships between police and historically marginalized communities. They also provide a promising framework for research on how police can translate research into practice in the area of community trust-building with groups reluctant to engage with police. Future research should begin testing the effectiveness of these types of interventions using experimental or quasi-experimental methods.

Connection is key when there's no planet B: The need to innovate environmental science communication with transdisciplinary approaches

As anthropogenic damage to the environment continues worldwide, effective science communication has never been more important. Despite this there are numerous barriers between traditional science communication (e.g. journal articles to news media) and the goal of encouraging more sustainable behaviours. Connections between public groups, science communicators and the environment, are all key to overcome barriers in intergroup communication. It is vital science communication adapts with transdisciplinary approaches to become more effective in its purpose. As such training of environmental science communicators must change. This endeavour will be supported by the enrichment of academic institutions through becoming more active in expediting cooperation between STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) and HASS (humanities, arts and social science) disciplines. Modern dissemination of misinformation must be tackled with holistic approaches to bridge outgroups and enable the formation of trust.

Two-level group convolution

Group convolution has been widely used in order to reduce the computation time of convolution, which takes most of the training time of convolutional neural networks. However, it is well known that a large number of groups significantly reduce the performance of group convolution. In this paper, we propose a new convolution methodology called “two-level” group convolution that is robust with respect to the increase of the number of groups and suitable for multi-GPU parallel computation. We first observe that the group convolution can be interpreted as a one-level block Jacobi approximation of the standard convolution, which is a popular notion in the field of numerical analysis. In numerical analysis, there have been numerous studies on the two-level method that introduces an intergroup structure that resolves the performance degradation issue without disturbing parallel computation. Motivated by these, we introduce a coarse-level structure which promotes intergroup communication without being a bottleneck in the group convolution. We show that all the additional work induced by the coarse-level structure can be efficiently processed in a distributed memory system. Numerical results that verify the robustness of the proposed method with respect to the number of groups are presented. Moreover, we compare the proposed method to various approaches for group convolution in order to highlight the superiority of the proposed method in terms of execution time, memory efficiency, and performance.

Design and Analysis of a New Reduced Switch Scalable MIN Fat Tree Topology

This paper presents a reduced switch scalable MIN fat tree with new inter-router connections. Unlike the conventional fat Tree, consecutive switches are connected with new bidirectional links for faster intergroup communication. In case of traditional Fat Tree, a packet has to travel upward upto the level called summit from where the downward path to the client is available, most often the summit is at the highest router level of the MIN Fat Tree. The proposed topology aims at lowering the summit by eliminating the entire topmost switch level, thereby reducing the size of the network significantly without considerable degradation in the network performance and maintaining the scalable property of the MIN fat Tree. The results indicate that the proposed network can not only reduce the delay but also reduce the number of switches to a great extent. It was found that around 33.33% of switches were reduced in the proposed network for eight clients and 14.28% for 128 clients.

Lie judgment trigger sensitivity and truth-bias: truth default theory in intergroup communication

ABSTRACT The central premise of truth-default theory (TDT) posits that listeners are truth-biased in communication exchanges. Levine’s TDT speculates that intergroup communication impacts truth-bias. To test this notion, participants judged the veracity of videos of speakers from the U.S. and China discussing their opinions on mask mandates and personal relationships. The results show that people hold a stronger truth-bias toward in-group members when those people share the same stance on the social issue of mask mandates. However, the study findings did not show a relationship between cultural identity on truth-bias. Interestingly, all participants showed a higher lie judgment trigger sensitivity toward speakers from a different culture, and higher lie judgment trigger sensitivity was also present for those who shared differing opinions on mask mandates.

Coordinated Singing in Coppery Titi Monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus): Resource or Mate Defense?

Coordinated singing, performed as duets by mated pairs and often joined by offspring to form choruses, is a distinctive behavioral attribute of the social system of pair-living and pair-bonded Neotropical titi monkeys. Duets and choruses are presumed to be associated with mate or territorial defense, but no consensus has yet been reached regarding their function. Here, we examined temporal and spatial patterns of coordinated singing in eight wild groups of coppery titi monkeys, Plecturocebus cupreus, in Peruvian Amazonia to test predictions of the joint resource and mate defense. We investigated singing rates in relation to female reproductive state, fruit consumption and demographic context using a dataset based on 227 observation days and analyzed temporal and spatial distribution of songs using a dataset based on 150 songs, collected between June 2017 and September 2021. Titi monkeys sang least frequently when females were likely to be sexually receptive and most frequently when females were likely to be pregnant. Groups also sang slightly more often when fruits were consumed more intensively, although this association did not reach statistical significance. The duration of songs was not associated with female reproductive state or fruit consumption, but songs were longer during inter-group encounters compared to non-encounter contexts. Songs were not concentrated in the core areas of home ranges; rather, they were distributed throughout the home ranges in concordance with its use. Finally, songs were concentrated around dawn. Our results provide support for a function in joint resource defense and inter-group communication of coordinated songs in coppery titi monkeys. The function of coordinated songs for mate defense in the form of paternity guarding, on the other hand, was not supported by our findings.

Notes on Contributing Authors

Other| April 01 2022 Notes on Contributing Authors Ethnomusicology (2022) 66 (1): vii–viii. https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.66.1.02 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Notes on Contributing Authors. Ethnomusicology 1 January 2022; 66 (1): vii–viii. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.66.1.02 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressEthnomusicology Search Advanced Search J Susan Baker is a senior research fellow with the University of Queensland, Australia. She is a social-developmental psychologist focusing on language and intergroup communication. Her publications are in the area of acculturation, second/heritage language learning, communication accommodation, intercultural relations, and doctor-patient communication.Polina Dessiatnitchenko is an Assistant Professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, where she is teaching ethnomusicology and musicology courses. She completed her PhD in ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto in 2017, where she was awarded the Garfield Weston Fellowship and Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Doctoral Graduate Scholarship for her doctoral research on Azerbaijani mugham. Polina has been working on her first monograph while holding a Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University's Department of Music from 2018 until 2021. In addition to her current teaching at Waseda University, she designed and taught her own courses at the University of... You do not currently have access to this content.

Jack London's “Mauki” and the Colonial Pacific

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“Oh, I like Your Accent”: Perceptions and Evaluations of Standard and Non-standard Accented English Speakers

This study examined the evaluation of standard-accented English (SAE) and nonstandard accented English (non-SAE) speakers in the United States. Results of an experiment (N = 670) manipulating accent, nationality/L1 introduction, and speaker sex revealed main effects for accent on the evaluation of status, solidarity, and dynamism, and a main effect of speaker sex on solidarity. Additionally, an interaction effect between accent and nationality/L1 introduction on status and dynamism was found, as was an interaction effect of accent and speaker sex on dynamism. These results suggest complexity in the evaluation of non-SAE speakers and are discussed in relation to language attitudes and intergroup communication.

Mutigroup-Based Phasmatodea Population Evolution Algorithm with Mutistrategy for IoT Electric Bus Scheduling

The Phasmatodea population evolution algorithm (PPE) is a novel metaheuristic algorithm proposed in recent years, which simulates the evolutionary trend of stick insect population. In this article, a multigroup-based Phasmatodea population evolution algorithm with mutistrategy (MPPE) is proposed to further improve the overall performance of PPE. During the initialization period, the stick insect population is divided into multiple groups, and the step factor of the flower pollen algorithm is introduced into the population growth model of no more than half of the groups. This makes the population evolution trend diversified and prevents the algorithm from falling into the local optimal solution to a certain extent. In terms of intergroup communication, two communication strategies are adopted to mutate and replace the inferior particles, respectively, which improves the convergence speed and search ability of the algorithm. In the MPPE performance test, we compared it with PPE, five standard algorithms, and other parallel algorithms in CEC 2013 Benchmark Suite. Finally, this algorithm is applied to the IoT based electric bus scheduling for urban waterlogging situation, and the excellent performance of MPPE is verified comprehensively.

How Entitativity Influences Sharers’ Attitude in Intergroup Communication: Focusing on eWOM Communication between Chinese and Japanese Consumers

How Entitativity Influences Sharers’ Attitude in Intergroup Communication: Focusing on eWOM Communication between Chinese and Japanese Consumers

Intergroup communication, conflict handling style and the quality relationship of multinational firms with oil producing communities

The research sought to understand how cross-border oil companies dealt with violence in the Niger Delta utilizing intergroup community strategy. The main goal was to present the best practices used by international oil companies in resolving conflicts with local residents (Odularu, 2008). The survey research design was used to collect data from 115 respondents. It includes senior and junior public relations workers. Because the sample was small, the total population was utilised, although 102 questionnaires were obtained from the 13 foreign oil companies actively seeking oil in the host regions. The data were analysed using mean, standard deviation, ANOVA, and regression using SPSS version 22. The study indicated that foreign oil companies often use compromise to resolve disagreements with host communities in the Niger Delta. The essential connection that international oil companies have with oil-producing communities in the region is unfavourable, as is the use of compromise tactics to resolve disputes. The study showed no statistically significant differences between compromise methods and host locations in addressing conflict. This report also proposed that international oil companies should stop dominating and start integrating and cooperating with the region’s oil-producing communities.

“Insiders” and “Outsiders” in Early Christianity in the Light of New Anthropological Theories

The article represents the problem of the development of early Christian anti-Judaism using the methods of Cognitive Science of Religion and Social Anthropology. This approach allows us to consider the early Christians anti-Jewish writings of 2nd — 3rd CE from another angle and to explain the reasons of emerging of anti-Judaism in a new way. In the works of early Christian authors Jews were always shown as “Others” (Outsiders) opposed to “Us” (Insides) — Christians. The image of Jew was stereotyped and passed through the Christian writings. Jews were characterized as deicides and apostates with worthless rites. They also caused troubles for Christians. At the same time Christians were depicted as new, eternal Israel, their New law replaced the Old law of Jews. For Christians “Us” were those, who rejected carnal sacrifices of Jews, circumcision and Shabbat day. Cognitive Science and Social anthropology explains humiliation of “Others” and exaltation of “Us”, pointing out that inter-group conflict emerge while groups have a common goal. At the same time, fear of “Other” makes inner-group connections stronger. Stereotypes and prejudices are the result of such inter-group communication. Stereotypes transmit, develop and strengthen within the group. Jewish-Christian relations of Antiquity are one of the examples of the conflict inter-group communication. Ancient anti-Jewish treatises demonstrate the growing of antipathy to Jews by Christians under the forming stereotypes.

The Urgency of Training for Peacekeepers and Family Resilience in Reducing Conflict during Peacekeeping Operations

Cultural awareness in peacekeeping operations is gaining traction, particularly among academics, to eradicate the resulting conflict through ideas, points of view, or policies. These policies can identify specific strategies to help each operation succeed. Culture awareness applies not only to peacekeepers but also to their families. This study employs a qualitative approach with data and literature sources on The Importance of Peacekeeper Training and Family Resilience in Conflict Resolution. Peacekeepers use a variety of strategies to reduce the likelihood of cultural clashes. The author approaches pre-deployment training with tolerance and objectivity in all decisions, inter-group coordination, inter-group communication, and inter-group planning. These materials can help people understand UN peacekeeping operations’ fundamental principles, values, and protocols. These principles can guide peacekeepers and their families as they assist countries in transitioning from war to peace. The impact of culture on the success or failure of conflict resolution processes utilized in peacekeeping deployments has been substantial. To preserve their effectiveness as a tool for resolving modern conflicts, peacekeeping operations must make extraordinary efforts to address cultural challenges at all levels of interpersonal interaction and throughout the implementation process

Роль представницької демократії у сучасних процесах формування української національної ідентичності

Показано, що у процесі взаємодії між владою та суспільством його вихідним моментом є легітимація влади в очах громадян. Зазначено, що демократичні процедури у плюралістичному суспільстві стають базисом легітимності влади. Зауважено, що центральним елементом демократичної легітимації влади та однією з найважливіших складових комунікації влади і суспільства є вибори. Вказано, що у ході електорального процесу численні групові та індивідуальні ідентичності, що існують у суспільстві, у певний спосіб артикулюють себе в публічному просторі, у відкритому та визначеному певними правилами суперництві з іншими. Зазначено, що така артикуляція стає однією з передумов для формування загальнонаціональної ідентичності громадян держави. Доведено, що спільна національна ідея/ідеологія та демократичні засади політичного співжиття є взаємопов’язаними чинниками, оскільки саме формування спільної ідентичності через діалог, через інтеграцію цінностей прав людини, політичних та громадянських свобод до цілої багатовимірної конструкції національної ідентичності може бути фактором консолідації суспільства.

ОСОБЕННОСТИ ОРГАНИЗАЦИОННОГО ПОВЕДЕНИЯ В СОЦИАЛЬНО ОРИЕНТИРОВАННЫХ ПРЕДПРИНИМАТЕЛЬСКИХ СТРУКТУРАХ

The authors have formed a scheme of group organizational behavior in a socially oriented entrepreneurial structure, in which all components are closely interconnected, and they must be considered in a single complex of elements and parameters that give an idea of the behavior of all employees of the organization. Several groups formed in a socially oriented entrepreneurial structure together with group and intergroup communication interaction, functioning relationships of individual participants and whole groups form the group structure of organizational behavior. The authors carried out the transformation of the basic elements on the basis of the "Edgar Shein pyramid" for the formation of organizational culture in an organization carrying out entrepreneurial activity. The forms and types of communication interaction in a socially oriented entrepreneurial structure are structured. The author's matrix of management paradigms in economic and social systems has been formed, which clearly demonstrates that, depending on the transformation of attitudes towards a person in personnel policy and the transition from the economic plane to the socio-economic one, the tools for working with employees will change, and accordingly the landscape of organizational culture will change, which will lead to a transformation in organizational behavior and modifications of communication interactions.

Minority ethnic media: challenges for the future

ABSTRACT Minority ethnic media play a unique role in preserving the languages, shaping the identity, and improving communication and cohesion of the ethnic groups it represents. However, traditional ethnic media outlets such as television channels and printed media worldwide have been facing decreasing viewership, especially because of strong competition from Internet media. Obtaining the support of people in the targeted ethnic group is critical and challenging. This paper elucidates the obstacles—dwindling viewership, competition from new media, and debates on intragroup and intergroup (intercultural) communication—that minority ethnic television channels face in many societies. By using the Taiwanese minority ethnic channel Hakka TV as an example, this study examined audiences’ viewing behaviors with respect to both the terrestrial channel and its online platform. A National Survey on Hakka Population and Languages (supported by the Taiwan Hakka Affairs Council) and in-depth interviews were used to explore the relationships between ethnicity, language, and communication in ethnic media. The results indicate what ethnic media outlets should prioritize to increasing viewership. Methods by which these outlets can reach out to other ethnic groups and enhance multiculturalism are discussed.

Enhancing intergroup communication in healthcare: The role of the receiver

This paper explores how the communication behaviour of another can have significant personal and professional impact and, in turn, put others in harm’s way. In healthcare, in a continual attempt to address known barriers to communication, such as fear, hierarchy and power differentials, significant human and financial resources are deployed to develop and teach new and existing methods of how to speak up. Despite the effort, speaking up remains difficult, and as a result, patients are still being harmed. The author’s personal story highlights the fact that maybe, until now, we have not been addressing the whole issue.