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.