TMM helps teams formulate collective explanations of and expectations on the task, share problem representation and orientation, facilitate communication and coordination of team activities, and to develop and sustain situational awareness [ 9].
Thus methodological individualism is a slightly misleading term, since the goal is not to privilege the individual over the collective in social-scientific explanation, but rather to privilege the action-theoretic level of explanation.
So ingrained is Cruise's Oprah appearance in our collective memory that no explanation was needed.
Sociologists and social psychologists, without denying the place of individual motivation in any complete explanation for collective behaviour, have more often stressed a distinctive quality or intensity of social interaction.
This paper argues that the dynamics of intention – in particular, the inter-related processes of plan-related group decision making and intention updating – play crucial roles in an explanation of collective intentionality.
Moreover, a preference for personal explanations over collective ones — the self-help book, rather than the political movement — can be a generational matter, rather than a political one.
In general, our results show that acknowledging a multilevel selection process will open up novel explanations for collective actions.
We can already see, for example, that these three are not separate explanations; the collective is not separable from the contextual.
This prediction is very unlikely to be fulfilled unless the bargaining power explanation and the collective household approach presented here are correct and applicable to relative physical attractiveness as well.
We believe the most likely explanation of these collective data is that HVEM stimulatory signals are required to turn-on immune responses, whilst HVEM-mediated inhibitory signals function largely to switch-off immune responses.
The Jets pointed their collective finger, if not their explanations, directly at Mangini.
