Group Process Group Decision Group Action or Tinkering

Group Process, Group Decision, Group Action

Author: Robert S Baron

The authors have written a book that successfully blends the older and newer research traditions in the field. The text presents topics, such as social facilitation, that first attracted the attention of social psychologists and concludes with topics such as crowding, group aggression, and social support.

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Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile

Author: Kathleen Franz

In the first decades of motor travel, between 1900 and 1940, Americans were buying automobiles in record numbers. Cars were becoming more easily affordable, not only for high-income families but for middle-class families as well. As they bought, they redesigned. By examining the ways Americans creatively adapted their automobiles, Tinkering takes a fresh look at automotive design from the bottom up, as a process that included manufacturers, engineers, designers, advice experts, and consumers, from savvy buyers to grass-roots inventors.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction : automobiles in the machine age	1
1	What consumers wanted	14
2	Women's ingenuity	43
3	Consumers become inventors	74
4	A tinkerer's story	103
5	The automotive industry takes the stage	130
	Epilogue : tinkering from customizing to Car talk	161