R. Scott Tindale

     
Institution
Loyola University Chicago

Current Position
Professor and Department Chair

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Social Psychology from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1984

Research Interests
Applied Social Psychology
Group Processes
Judgment/Decision Making
Organizational Behavior
Persuasion/Social Influence
Psychology and Law

 
R. Scott Tindale
Department of Psychology
Loyola University Chicago
6525 N. Sheridan Road
Chicago, Illinois 60626
U.S.A.

Home Page
Phone: (773) 508-3014
Fax: (773) 508-8713

Vita

R. Scott Tindale
Most of my research involves issues of information processing and social influence in individual and group decision making. Specifically, my recent research has focused on how group members can share certain representations of a task (or certain cognitive processes/heuristics activated by the task) and how these shared representations impact on group decision performance and intra-group influence processes. For example, although groups often outperform individuals in many task domains, we have found that for certain types of decision problems (particularly those involving the use of probabilistic information), groups perform below the levels of an average individual. In such cases, we have found that dominant, but biased, task representations shared among the group members tend to give factions favoring alternatives consistent with such representations greater power within the group. I am also interested in the effects of procedures on group performance, and on how group members perceive procedures, particularly in terms of procedural fairness and efficiency. My applied interests revolve around legal settings, particularly as they relate to juries, and decision making groups in organizations.


Books:

  • Hogg, M. A., & Tindale, R. S. (Eds.). (2001). Blackwell handbook of social psychology: Group processes. London: Blackwell Publishers.
  • Tindale, R. S., Heath, L., Edwards, J., Posavac, E. J., Bryant, F. B., Suarez-Balcazar, Y., Henderson-King, E, & Myers, J. (Eds.). (1998). Social psychological applications to social issues, Volume 4: Theory and research on small groups. New York: Plenum Press.

Journal Articles:

  • Hinsz, V. B., Tindale, R. S., & Vollrath, D. A. (1997). The emerging conception of groups as information processors. Psychological Bulletin, 121, 43-64.
  • Tindale, R. S., & Kameda, T. (2000). "Social sharedness" as a unifying theme for information processing in groups. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 3, 123-140.

Other Publications:

  • Kerr, N. L., & Tindale, R. S. (2004). Small group decision making and performance. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 623-656.
  • Tindale, R. S., Nadler, J., Krebel, A., & Davis, J. H. (2001). Procedural mechanisms and jury behavior. In M. A. Hogg & R. S. Tindale (Eds.), Blackwell handbook of social psychology: Group processes. London: Blackwell Publishers.
  • Tindale, R. S., Smith, C. M., Thomas, L. S., Filkins, J., & Sheffey, S. (1996). Shared representations and asymmetric social influence processes in small groups. In J. Davis, & E. Witte (Eds.), Understanding group behavior: Consensual action by small groups (Vol. 1). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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