Research Note: Perceptions Are Reality: How Family Meetings Lead to Collective Action
提出一个模型，说明家庭会议通过创造感知到的共享信念来增强家庭凝聚力，进而推动集体行动，并报告了初步研究结果，表明感知共享信念可能是集体家庭活动的重要刺激因素。
Family meetings develop family unity through the creation of perceived shared beliefs. The article presents a model with strategic implications showing how shared beliefs lead to collective action, which leads to outcomes and then the reassessment of the shared beliefs. Finally, the article reports on initial research on the reliability of instruments developed to explore one aspect of this model: The creation of shared beliefs through family meetings. The initial results suggest that perceptions of shared beliefs may be an important stimulant of collective family activity.