I hope to conduct research on how groups can take on the traits of a family when they share a close bond with one another. The group members will tend to be more protective and caring of one another. Also, willing to go to any length to protect one another as if the group members are family. Some of their behavior will also show signs of family like behavior such as bickering siblings or an obvious parental role at a given time. Groups do not often display these traits and lack a bond that is strong enough to resemble a familial bond. I plan to search psychology, sociology, and scientific journal and articles in order to obtain more information on this interesting subject. I found a variety of sources thus far, but I plan on finding many more including a few that are from more recent journals and books. These sources will enable me to trace this behavior back from the past to present and make easy comparisons between the real world and my paper. I will have to use more sources in order to find journals of various backgrounds and from all of these sources at once. The recommended one is the library search from the OSU library which allows a search across many fields to obtain results that are hopefully relevant to the chosen keywords. I hope to find that a few of the articles make a clear connection between the groups behavior and family behavior in order to help back up my thesis in a very solid manner. These are 5 sources i found thus far:
Banerjee, Abhijit V. (1992). "A Simple Model of Herd Behavior". Quarterly Journal of Economics 107 (3):
797–817. <http://www.jstor.org/pss/2118364. 1992>. 7 October 2010.
Ottaviani, Marco, and Peter Sorenson. "Herd Behavior and Investment: Comment." American Economic
Review, Vol. 90, No. 3, 695-704. Jun., 2000. 7 October 2010.
Raafat RM, Chater N, Frith C., Herding in humans, Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2009). 7 October 2010.
Rook, Laurens. "An Economic Psychological Approach to Herd Behavior." Journal of Economic Issues
40.1 (2006): 75-95. 7 October 2010.
Wegner, Daniel M. “Transactive Memory: A Contemporary Analysis of the Group Mind.” 7 Octorber
2010. <http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~wegner/pdfs/Wegner%20Transactive%20Memory.pdf>.
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