Findings

Our four tent experiments are completed and the results are in.

• In the first experiment, the leader and the group were all in pretty good moods. Although, the tests showed that they were all pretty tired. They completed 95% of the tent in 15 min.
• In the second experiment, the leader and the group were in very bad moods. They were only able to get the poles through the the sleeves in 15 min.
• In the third experiment, we had the leader act in random and 'bad apple' ways, such as being nonchalant and mean. In this experiment, an individual from the group took over leadership from the leader, even though he was blindfolded. This group finished the tent in 7 min.
• In the final experiment, the leader was in a very good mood while the group was in a somewhat lower mood. This group also completed the tent in under 7 min. and the moods of the whole group were significantly higher after the experiment.

12/9/09

Notes:
Our group came up against a barrier this week. We failed to think about the fact that our video camera is not digital and that we would have to transfer the mini dv tapes to a dvd so that we can edit and post it. Luckily, Emily's dad owns a computer repair shop and can help us with the process. The challenge is to get it done before the deadline. Emily is going to talk to her dad and as soon as it is done, I am going to pick up the dvd from her and drop it off at denise's house so that it can get edited. Finally, we will post it along with our findings.

Agenda:
Finish blog before deadline.

Attendance: Emily, Ola, Niro, Tony, Jessica, Denise, All here.

12/02/2009 Start time: 4:30p.m End time 5:15 pm

Roles:
Notetaker-Ola, Blogger- Niro, Time keeper-Denise,Peacekeeper-Tony, Devils Advocate-Jessica, Emily.

Attendence:
Here-Tony, Jessica, Ola, Emily, Niro,Denise (All Present)

Agenda:
Edits & post the videos of our present experiment as well as what we learned , complete all roles of our final leadership presentation.
Prepre for our final Leadership Presentation.

Attendance: HERE- Ola and Emily
NOT HERE- Denise, Jessica, Tony, Niro.

Agenda:

• Hustle up as many people as possible to be in the next two experiments.
• Write leadership handout in class with whole group and finish planning presentation.
• Talk to the rest of the team as to their availability for the experiments on Sunday and to see if they can bring some people.
  

Notes: More than half our team didn't show up today. Emily and I decided to get as many people as we could for the experiment and then try to get the team plugged in later. Our biggest concern right now is to get the last two experiments done so that we can post the video and our findings in time.

11/18/09 Start time:2:30, Ended at 3:30

Attendence:
Here- Niro, Jessica, Denise, and Ola
Not Here- Emely, and Tony

NOTES:
We decided to meet sunday again for the third time, we discusted what we should do and say in our leadership presentation. We also got the activity we will be doing in our presentation. We also have to pick a day we would like to do our presentation.

AGENDA:
-Meet sunday for the third experiment at ocean view park at 10am
-Continue reading book
-Plan leadership presentation

ROLES:
Denise: Note taker
Jessica: Blogger
Ola:Time keeper
Niro: Peace keeper

week of 11/11/09

Start time: 3:45 End time 4:30

Roles:
Notetaker-Emily
Blogger-Ola
Time keeper-Tony
Peacekeeper-Niro
Devils Advocate-Jessica

Attendence:
Here-Tony, Jessica, Ola, Emily, Niro
Not here-Denise

Agenda:

• Think about Leadership Activity; each tea member will bring three activities to class next week so that we can decide on one.

• Meet for 2nd and 3rd experiments.

• Get more people for experiments.

• Try to finish leadership book.

Notes:

This week our team discussed what kind of leadership activity we want to do. There was a debate around the type of activity. We finally decided that we wanted to do an interactive activity that was more hands on. Next, we talked about the best time and place to have our next experiment and what we could do if Denise was still sick since she has most of the important equipment. In the end, we agreed that the best way to do it would be to meet at a park on sun. at two and if Denise was still sick, Jessica would get the stuff we needed from her. Also, both Tony and Emily are going to bring the participants for this experiment so we were thinking that we could get more than a couple in.

11/03/2009 , Start Time at 4.00 p.m Ended at 4.30 pm

Roles.
Tme Keeper :Jessica
Blogger : Niro
Note Taker : Ola
Peace Keeper : Emily
D.A : Denise

Notes.
Today we talked about our ideas for where to meet and, to conduct experiments
What to tell The Participants. we decided to tell the participants That we are Testing how well groups work together .we will meet at Denises house or the park Next to her house.

Agenda.
Continue reading leadership book and, all of us we should think about activity
For our Leadership presentation. we will meet on Monday and,then conduct
Our first experiment.
Ola will bring the mod test
Emily will bring consent form
Denise will have her camera
We will do the experiment with cousins of Denises.

Attendance.
Niro,Emily,Ola,Jessica,Denise were present.
Tony did not show up.

We started at 4.00 p.m and, Ended at 4.30 p.m

Semester long project proposal

1. Intentions. Our plan is to conduct and record a set of experiments about the effects
of the leaders mood and/or emotions on the group (the contagious
leader).

2. Research related to project.
We found lots of research on the effects of leaders on the group. Some examples are:

• The Contagious Leader: Impact of the Leader’s Mood on the Mood of Group Members, Group Affective Tone, and Group Processes
Thomas Sy
California State University, Long Beach Ste´ phane Coˆ te´
University of Toronto
Richard Saavedra
University of Michigan

• Charisma Is Contagious: The Effect of Leaders' Charisma on Observers' Affect1
Paul D. Cherulnik, 2 1 Kristina A. Donley 1 , Tay Sha R. Wiewel 1 Susan R. Miller 1
1 The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma


3. Recourses needed and plan to acquire recourses.
We will need a tent, a video camera, people willing to participate in an experiment, a written agreement form for participants to sign and a mood test for them to take, blindfolds, and a large, preferably quiet space.
One of our team members has a video camera so that is already taken care of. Two of us have friends with tents that we can borrow. Further, our team will put the written agreement form together and we will use a mood test already used in psychology experiments to assess the moods of the participants. Also, we plan to buy the blindfolds and have the experiments take place in one of our yards. Our team’s biggest challenge will be recruiting participants for the experiment. We plan to ask friends, family members and other students to participate.

4. What do you plan to do?

• A date and time will be choosen for the experiments.

• There will be a set of experiments and for each experiment there will be five
• people, one leader and four people.

• Each experiment will be done seperatly so that the groups do not interact with each other.
• The groups will be told that the experiment is about memory.


• In the first experiment, we will radomnly select a leader and give him information on how to set up the tent effectively.

• We will give all of the participants a piece of paper to sign that states that they agree to participate in said experiment.

• All of the participates will take a mood test before and after each experiment.

• In each of the following experiments we will have vareing factors introduced such as telling the leader to act in a “Bad Apple” way or manipulating his/her mood with videos.

• We will video tape the process and post it on our blog along with our findings.



5. Financial needs for successful execution.
Very minimal, we may need to buy tapes and blindfolds.

October 21, 2009

Attendance
here: Emily, Ola, Niro, Tony
left early: Denise
not here: Jessica

Roles
Tony - Notetaker
Emily - Blogger
Ola - Devil's Advocate
Denise - Peace Keeper
Niro - Time Keeper

Agenda for week

• Talk to friends and get a list of people who are willing to take part in the experiment.
• Find a tent and figure out a place for the experiment
• Continue reading Primal Leadership
• Post goals on blog next wednesday
• Coordinate a day to meet outside of class to plan our experiment

Notes
We talked a lot about our experiment in class this week. We also read The Contagious Leader: Impact of the Leader’s Mood on the Mood of Group Members, Group Affective Tone, and Group Processes. We started planning our future agenda and discussed what we need to make our experiment successful.

October 14, 2009
NOTES

This week before getting started we took attendance and picked our roles for the week. Once we did that we talked about when we can meet out side of class. We decided to meet on Monday 10/19/2009 at two in the cafeteria to complete our proposal for the semester long project. We also brainstormed on mission statement and successfully finished it.

AGENDA

• meet during the week.
• take a picture as a group and post it on blog.
• finish research experiment on contagious leaders.

ATTENDANCE

HERE: Jessica, Niro, Ola, Emily, Denise. NOT HERE: Tony

ROLES

• Ola - note taker
• Denise - blog
• Emily - time keeper
• Jessica - D.A
• Niro - P.K

Notes for the week of 10/7/09

This week, after deciding our roles, the team discussed the layout for our poster. We got some of it done in class and the goal is to get it finished in class next week. Next, we talked about our semester long project. We are still discussing the different options around experiments that we have and decided as a group that we would make the final dicision in class next week before writing up the proposal. We finished up by working on the layout for the blog and making sure that our attendence and agenda were posted before leaving class.

10/7/09-Agenda: Work on the blog.
Finish the poster.
Fill out the form for the semester long project proposal.
Bring a camera to take a pic. of team members and poster.

10/7/09 Attendence: Here; Emily, Tony, Niro, Ola. Left early; Denise. Not here; Jessica.
Roles: Ola-Blogger
Emily-Note taker
Tony-Time taker
Denise-Peace keeper
Niro-Devil's advocate

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