It Is Motivating to Belong to a Group

Being a community member has many advantages. People feel safer when they know that there are people who share their goals around and care about their progress. That is one of the reasons for mobility and travel becoming very tight. Suddenly, you were blocked by a normal group.

However, in order to gain some benefit from being a team member, how much do you need to contact with others? Gregory Walton, Geoffrey Cohen, David Cwir, Steven Spencer investigated this issue in the March 2012 issue of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. According to their survey, we do not need much contact until we see some benefits.

For example, in one study, articles read by college students should be written by senior students with positive experience in mathematics. Author's bio includes birthdays. For some participants biographies are set so that authors and article participants have the same birthday. For other people, participants and authors have several months apart.

After reading this article, participants were given unsolvable geometric problems (including coloring the map with a fixed amount of color). Participants sharing their birthdays with article authors spend a lot of time on issues that are impossible than participants who do not share their birthdays. In addition, participants who shared birthdays with the author of the article have a more positive thinking about mathematics, evaluating the math department of the university as a more friendly and warm place.

In another study arbitrary relationships were born among people. Later, they were told that people with colored stickers were either part of the "number" group or part of the "puzzle" group. After being put into these groups, people were given the problem of impossible mathematics they had used before. People participating in the "digital" group have addressed this problem for a longer time than those who are participating in the "Mystery" group. Interestingly, this effect only happens to those who are very interested in mathematics. Those who are not interested in mathematics are not affected by the "digital" group

Combining these studies shows that this work is sufficient for raising warmth and motivation even for simple relationships due to some reason (eg sharing of birthdays or random assignment to a group).

After all, people seem to have reasons to adopt the goals of people around them. Of course, depending on what people around us are doing, this can be a good thing or a bad thing. For this reason, we must be careful to be surrounded by other people who participate in the actions we want to see themselves.

We are aware that the motivation for attribution is part of the group of people in real life because humans are feeling the need to connect human relationships and build it. But why do people want to belong to the Internet so strongly? If there is the same principle, what has changed, and now does mankind need to belong more? Because "other people" is doing this, some people are still married. If social media are so, is there anyone to join because he is afraid of being excluded as an outsider and being excluded? Perhaps online is to make us more receptive to acceptance because there are more time for people to prepare and show the versions and unbiased descriptions that you may prefer to you . In real life we ​​will reveal you with so many interactions, but online helps to introduce your most successful version. Yes, I tend to believe that real life is forcing people to become a reality

The need for an alliance is the basic motivation of the working group. It is very exciting and attractive to belong to a special group and to have time and resources to go out with that group. Therefore, providing rewards and giving group members a social occasion is a very effective strategy for motivating group work (Andrews, 1999). Such a reward may include a simple "free time" to socialize. Food plays a role as a driving force for social activities at all times. Pizza parties' remuneration as a goal of the working group is positive. Other social occasions may include trips to local restaurants and group travel to the cinema. Activity itself may motivate, but that is the concept of activities with other members who can add value (Andrews, 1999).