John Levine

Senior Scientist, Professor Emeritus, Learning Research & Development Center

Education and Training

PhD University of Wisconsin

Research Interests

• Small group processes -- team performance, newcomer innovation, reaction to deviance
• Learning in social contexts
• Social support in online groups

Recent Publications

Abrams, D., Travaglino, G. A., Marques, J. M., Pinto, I., & Levine, J. M. (2018). Deviance credit: Tolerance of deviant ingroup leaders is mediated by their accrual of prototypicality and conferral of their right to be supported. Journal of Social Issues, 74, 36-55.

Levine, J. M. (2018). Socially-shared cognition and consensus in small groups. Current Opinion in Psychology, 23, 52-56 (Special Issue on Shared Reality, G. Echterhoff & E. T. Higgins, Eds.).

Yang, D., Kraut, R., & Levine, J. M. (2017). Commitment of newcomers and old-timers to online health support communities. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017). New York: ACM Press.

Levine, J. M. (2017). Factional conflict in groups: How majorities and minorities relate to one another. Group Processes & Intergroup Relation, 20, 644-657.

Marques, J. M., & Levine, J. M. (2016). Deviance in groups: New perspectives on enduring questions. Special Issue of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.

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