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Direct linkWhitmeyer, Joseph M. – Social Forces, 2007
Groups often confer high prestige on individuals even when few members of the group ever interact with those individuals. To account for this phenomenon, I present a multilevel simulation model of a group's selection of its top-ranked member. In the model, the mechanism for social agreement on a top person is aggregation of group members' private…
Descriptors: Reputation, Group Experience, Social Psychology, Simulation
