Group Formation and Collective Action Focus Group Overview: We are interested in the emergence of small groups and in the collective decision making of self-organized groups. The "social poker" research team embedded in this focus group has developed a laboratory paradigm to study the formation of short-lived self-organized groups. We are investigating group composition, allocation norms, and individual and collective decision making using the social poker paradigm. A computer-mediated version of the paradigm has been developed and we plan to pursue issues related to group formation in virtual space, both with and without the presence of software "bots" as potential group members. Primary Contact Person: Holly Arrow, Department of Psychology 346-1996, (harrow@darkwing.uoregon.edu) Other members of this focus group so far: John Orbell, Political Science, 346-5061, jorbell@oregon.uoregon.edu Steve Fickas, Computer Science Scott Crosson, Political Science Katie Burns, Psychology Meetings and Events:   People connected with the focus group have two weekly meetings; we also present our work regularly at the Wednesday noon Hill Center seminar series.   For Winter term, the "core" group discussing ideas and research (both planned and in progress) meets Mondays at noon in the Hill Center, 178 Straub.   The working group for computer-mediated social poker meets Thursday 1:30-2:30 in Deschutes 347. This is a more operational group, with most of our time spend discussing nitty gritty details of programming, data processing etc. Web page for the social poker research group: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~harrow/spdes.htm

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