PSYC 3430 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Henri Tajfel, Folk Psychology, Emergence
7 Feb 2016
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Group dynamics: the influential actions, processes, and changes that occur within and between groups. Humans are capable of living alone, but few choose to, for virtually all human activities. Group: two or more individuals who are connected by and within social relationships. A group can range in size from two members to many thousands. Dyads, include two members, while triads consist of three. Members of dyads are sometimes linked by a unique and powerful type of relationship-love- that. John james concluded that groups tend to stay small, and gravitate to two people makes their dynamic so intense that they belong in their own category. In larger groups many group members link to other members only indirectly (ex. B, b may talk only to c so that a is linked to c only through b. When the ties linking members are strong, the group is more enduring and its influence on members is more extensive.
