Can Positive Group Experiences Shift Attitudes Toward Group Work?
” Monday, May 21, 2007 Noon Mershon Center for International Security Studies 1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201 See a streaming video of this event. This streaming video requires RealPlayer. If you do not have RealPlayer, you can download it free. Jennifer “Gigi” Foster is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Microeconomics and Econometrics in the School of Commerce, Division of Business, at the University of South Australia. Her areas of research include social effects in education, health, and the workplace; human sorting processes; labor and health economics; and applied microeconomics. Foster’s published papers include “It’s Not your Peers, and It’s Not your Friends: Some progress toward understanding the educational peer effect mechanism” (Journal of Public Economics, 2006), and “Making Friends: A nonexperimental analysis of social pair formation” (Human Relations, 2005). Foster will speak on her working paper, “Can Positive Group Experiences Shift Attitudes Toward Group Work? New eviden
