{"id":6,"date":"2011-06-13T18:56:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T18:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-02-21T09:50:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:50:42","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. B&#8217;s research covers groups and teams in both experimental and field (i.e., &#8220;real world&#8221;) settings. Most research can be found either <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=mnEZIz4AAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Google Scholar<\/a> or by emailing Dr. Blanchard for a reprint.<\/p>\n<p>Over her career, Dr. B has studied:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Entitativity<\/li>\n<li>Construal-Level theory<\/li>\n<li>The relationship between entitativity and meetings in virtual teams<\/li>\n<li>Sense of (virtual) Community<\/li>\n<li>Online leadership behavior<\/li>\n<li>Surface Acting Online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>among other topics.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, most research is conducted through and with <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/virtual-communities-lab\/\">the VICE Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. B&#8217;s research covers groups and teams in both experimental and field (i.e., &#8220;real world&#8221;) settings. Most research can be found either Google Scholar or by emailing Dr. Blanchard for a reprint. Over her career, Dr. B has studied: Entitativity Construal-Level theory The relationship between entitativity and meetings in virtual teams Sense of (virtual) Community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P67nDP-6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":93,"url":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/","url_meta":{"origin":6,"position":0},"title":"Home","author":"Anita Blanchard","date":"June 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr. Blanchard is a professor of Psychological and Organization Science at UNC Charlotte. \u00a0Her research interests include online and face-to-face groups and communities. 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