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Purpose should be to summarize what Asch's experiments and their findings.

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Certain verbiage makes it sound like the results and method are mixing. In retrospect, this is not an issue once the dedicated results section is read. Other than that, the article is clean as a encyclopedia-esque article.

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Citations reference articles that are not linked, but those that have DOI's are functional.

Talk page mentions certain aspects that may be of interest talking about. Of interest to myself is someone mentioning lacking replicability. Talk page also mentions the ambiguity of certain sentences that makes the design look like a result.

Article was nominated a "good article" but did not meet the criteria to actually be one. The article is now subject to editing to meet that criteria.

Article Choices?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobbing

I believe the "At school", "In academia", and "checklists" can be expanded to include more information as what they currently have is basically "Mobbing exists in these two context and may be evaluated with a checklist". Potential for adding other sections depending on what other sources provide. My personal first choice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normative_social_influence

Might be a candidate. Seems high value and general but includes plenty of "Needs Citation" marks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersignaling

Article is too short with 1-2 sources. Marked for improvement by wiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milieu_control

Short article with 1-2 sources. Only issue is this sounds more like a sociology concept.

Kenneth Westhues' 5 Stages of Mobbing
Mobbing can vary greatly from case to case. However, incidences of mobbing may share an underlying pattern. Kenneth Westhues has suggested that there are five stages of the mobbing process :

1. Avoidance and ostracization of the target.

2. Petty harassment: making the target’s life difficult.

3. A critical incident that triggers formal sanctions: “something has to be done".

4. Aftermath of the incident: hearings, appeals, mediation.

5. Elimination: target quits, retires, is fired, becomes disabled, dies of stress-induced illness, or commits suicide.

Checklists
Sociologists and authors have created checklists and other tools to identify mobbing behaviour.

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Article reviewed focus mostly on workplace context. Found an article on a measure. Found 2 on treatments? Maybe add a section on that?

The content looks very close to bullying and actually leads to bullying articles. It may be of interest to further develop why this is different from bullying as it appears mobbing is a group of bullies or normalized bullying. So far, it appears the major differentiation used in the article is the "work" context. Article mentions that mobbing can be measured but does not go into detail how. The specifics of this scale may be beyond the scope of the article, but it may be worth mentioning the psychometric properties of how people are measuring and studying mobbing.

Sources(?): Effects

Prevention

Measurement

Checklists BETA
Social scientists have created checklists, questionnaires and other tools to identify mobbing behavior. Common approaches to assessing mobbing behavior is through quantifying frequency of mobbing behavior based off a given definition of the behavior or through quantifying what respondents believe encompasses mobbing behavior. These are referred to as "self-labeling" and "behavior experience" methods respectively.

Limitations of some mobbing examination tools are:
 * Participant exhaustion due to examination length
 * Limited sample exposure resulting in limited result generalizability
 * Confounding with constructs that result in the same affect as mobbing but are not purposely harmful

Common Tools used to measure mobbing behavior are:
 * Leyman Inventory of Psychological Terror (LIPT)
 * Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised (NAQ-R)
 * Luxembourg Workplace Mobbing Scale (LWMS)

The Waterloo Anti-Mobbing Instruments (WAMI) created by Kenneth Westhues contains a 16 item checklist to identify the signs of mobbing. These are the signs that Westhues identified:

1. By standard criteria of job performance, the target is at least average, probably above average.

2. Rumours and gossip circulate about the target’s misdeeds: “Did you hear what she did last week?”

3. The target is not invited to meetings or voted onto committees, is excluded or excludes self.

4. Collective focus on a critical incident that “shows what kind of man he really is.”

5. Shared conviction that the target needs some kind of formal punishment, “to be taught a lesson.”

6. Unusual timing of the decision to punish, e. g., apart from the annual performance review.

7. Emotion-laden, defamatory rhetoric about the target in oral and written communications.

8. Formal expressions of collective negative sentiment toward the target, e. g. a vote of censure, signatures on a petition, meeting to discuss what to do about the target.

9. High value on secrecy, confidentiality, and collegial solidarity among the mobbers.

10. Loss of diversity of argument, so that it becomes dangerous to “speak up for”or defend the target.

11. The adding up of the target’s real or imagined venial sins to make a mortal sin that cries for action.

12. The target is seen as personally abhorrent, with no redeeming qualities; stigmatizing, exclusionary labels are applied.

13. Disregard of established procedures, as mobbers take matters into their own hands.

14. Resistance to independent, outside review of sanctions imposed on the target.

15. Outraged response to any appeals for outside help the target may make.

16. Mobbers’ fear of violence from target, target’s fear of violence from mobbers, or both.

Westhue points out that he believes item 12 is the most important indicator in the checklist. In his book The Envy of Excellence, he reduces the checklist to 10 items.

Counteracting Mobbing
From an organizational perspective, it has been suggested that mobbing behavior can be curtailed by acknowledging behaviors as mobbing behaviors and that such behaviors result in harm and/or negative consequences. Precise definitions of such traits are critical due to ambiguity of unacceptable and acceptable behaviors potentially leads to unintentional mobbing behavior. Attenuation of mobbing behavior can further be enhanced by developing policies that explicitly address specific behaviors that are culturally accepted to result in harm or negative affect. This provides a framework from which mobbing victims can respond to mobbing. Lack of such a framework may result in a situation where each instance of mobbing is treated on an individual basis with no recourse of prevention. It may also indicate that such behaviors are warranted and within the realm of acceptable behavior within an organization. Direct responses to grievances related to mobbing that are handled outside of a courtroom and training programs outlining antibully-countermeasures also demonstrate a reduction in mobbing behavior.