creators_name: Tarnow, Eugen
type: preprint
datestamp: 2005-04-24
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:59
metadata_visibility: show
title: A QUANTITATIVE MODEL OF THE AMPLIFICATION OF POWER THROUGH ORDER AND THE CONCEPT OF GROUP DEFENSE
subjects: comp-sci-mach-dynam-sys
subjects: soc-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: Group defense, power, order
abstract: I propose a simple quantitative model of how the power of a leader over a group is amplified when he or she starts to order the group. This model implies that a small well-informed minority can easily govern a previously ordered majority such as hijacked passengers.  The model leads to the concept, “group defense,” which stresses the importance of group members resisting enemy ordering and creating a counter-ordering.  Group defense may be helpful in preventing fatal hijackings such as the ones that occurred on September 11 and other massacres on civilians.
date: 2000
date_type: published
refereed: FALSE
referencetext: 	ASCH, S.E. Studies of independence and conformity: a minority of one against a unanimous majority. Psychological Monographs, 1956, 70.
  ARAD, Y. Operation Reinhard Death Camps: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka.  Bloomington, 1987.

citation:   Tarnow, Dr. Eugen  (2000) A QUANTITATIVE MODEL OF THE AMPLIFICATION OF POWER THROUGH ORDER AND THE CONCEPT OF GROUP DEFENSE.  [Preprint]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/4275/1/Group_Defense.pdf