Selected publications from our Lab’s Work (Reprints Available Upon Request)
Grabowski, M.*, Lehmann-Willenbrock, N., Blanchard, A. L., Steinicke, F., & Rings, S. R.* (2024) Group dynamics in the Metaverse: A conceptual framework and first empirical insights, Small group research.
Blanchard, A. L. & Duran, J.* (2025). Expanding Small Group Dynamics: Bridging Organizational Sciences and Social Psychology, The Handbook of Experimental Psychology.
Blanchard, A. L., Duran, J.*, and Lewis, J.*. (2023) Electronic Communication. (Eds., Hogg, M.) The Oxford Journal of Social Psychology Oxford Press.
Blanchard, A. L. (2024). Revising Sense of Community to Understand Typical and Extremist Virtual Communities, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
Blanchard, A. L., McBride, A.*, & Ernst, B.*. (2022), How are we similar: Group level entitativity in work and social groups, Small Group Research
Blanchard, A. L., McBride, A.* & Allen, J. A. (2022) Perceiving meetings as groups: Entitativity as a theoretical explanation of meeting effectiveness, Psychology of Leaders and Leadership
Blanchard, A. L. & Allen, J. A. (2022). The Entitativity Underlying Meetings: Meeting Entitativity as Key in the Lifecycle of Effective Workgroups, Organizational Psychology Review.
Smith, E., Keegan, B., Tan, C., Alam, A., & Blanchard, A. L. (2022). The Impact of Governance Bots on Sense of Virtual Community: Development and Validation of the GOV-BOTs Scale, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Online.
Blanchard, A. L. (2021) The effects of COVID-19 on virtual working within online groups, Group processes & Intergroup Relations, 24 (2),
Blanchard, A. L. & McBride, A.* (2020) Putting the “Group” in Group Meetings: Entitativity in Face-to-Face and Online Meetings, In Meinecke, A. L., Allen, J. A., & Lehmann-Willnebrock, N. Managing meetings in organizations, Emerald Publishing.
Blanchard, A. L., Caudill, L. E.* & Walker, L. S. (2020). Developing an entitativity measure and distinguishing it from antecedents and outcomes within online and face-to-face groups, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations Here is a blog post about this study
Szymanska, I.*, Blanchard, A. L., & Kuhns, K.. (2019). Paradoxical influence of family ownership on innovation-focused organizational change: Evidence from a large family business retail firm, Journal of family business management.
Blanchard, A. L., Stewart, O. J.*, & Medaugh, M.* (2018) The Paradox of Challenge: How Nurses use Professional Virtual Communities to Navigate their Career, Research in Careers, Volume 4.
Gur, S.*, Blanchard, A. L, & Walker, L. S. (2016) Impacts on Society: Informational and Socio-Emotional Support in Virtual Communities and Online Groups, in (B. Baggio, ed) Analyzing Digital Discourse and Human Behavior in Modern Virtual Environments, IGI Global
Wadsworth, M. D.* & Blanchard, A. L. (2015) Influence in Virtual Teams, Computers in Human Behavior.
Blanchard, A. L., Stewart, O. J.*, Cann, A. & Follman, L.* (2014). Making Sense of Humor at work, The Psychologist-Manager, 17 (1), 49-70.
Askay, D.A.*, Blanchard, A. L., Stewart, O.J.* (2013). Managing Entitativity through Social Media. In T. Bondarouk and M.R. Olivas- Luján (Eds.), Social Media and Management, in the Advanced Series in Management. Emerald.
Walker, L. S., Blanchard, A. L., & Burnett, H. (2012). The Role of Experiments in the Study of Virtual Groups. In Shawn Long (Ed) Virtual Work and Human Interaction Research. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Welbourn, J. L., Blanchard, A. L., & Boughton, M. D. (2012) Motivations in Virtual Health Communities and Their Relationship to Community, Connectedness and Stress. Computers in Human Behavior.
Blanchard, A. L., Welbourne, J. A. & Boughton, M. A. (2011) A Model of Online Trust: The Mediating Role of Norms and Sense of Virtual CommunityPub. Information, Communication, and Society, 14(1), 76-106.
Blanchard, A., Askay, D. A., & Frear, K. A. (2010) Sense of Community in Professional Virtual Communities. In Shawn Long (Ed) Communication, relationships, and practices in virtual work.
Blanchard, A. L., & Rashotte, L. S. (2010). The Role of Technology in the Development of Group Trust. In D. Latusek & A. Gerbasi (Eds). Trust and Technology.
Welbourne, J., Blanchard, A. L., & Boughton, M. D.* (2009). Supportive Communication, Sense of Virtual Community and Health Outcomes in Online Infertility Groups. In Communities and Technology 2007: Proceedings of the Fourth Communities and Technologies Conference, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
Blanchard, A. L. (2008). Testing a model of sense of virtual community, Computers in Human Behavior, 24, 2107-2123. (Google Scholar)
