The following resources are in alphabetical order by title. Enjoy! Thanks for reading!
Category: Group Dynamics
What Are The Nine Team Roles Useful In Group Goal Achievement?
“The types of behaviour in which people engage are infinite. But the range of useful behaviours, which make an effective contribution to team performance, is finite. These behaviours could be grouped into a set…
What Are The Functional Task And Social Roles Of Group Members?
Some roles are common amongst most groups and tend to emerge spontaneously. Separated by sociologists into either “task roles” or “social roles”, these “unformalized behavior patterns” and “situational identities”, develop over time…
Why Care About Roles? Social Dilemmas, Exchange Relationships, And Psychological Needs
According to R.H. Turner, a role is a “cluster of behaviors and attitudes that are thought to belong together” and role players are “guided by a set of expectations… so that an individual is viewed as…
The Developmental Sequence In Small Groups
In his work, Bruce W. Tuckman proposes four general stages of group development, stating that, “In the social realm, these stages in the developmental sequence are testing-dependence, conflict, cohesion, and functional roles. In the…
Are You Involved In A Thought-Limiting Mass Movement? Understanding How Cults Are Built
The purpose of this post is to provide information on building cults such that a guide is created for those questioning whether or not they, themselves, are involved in a cult or…
What Is A Cult? A Cult Is Dependency
Cults and true believers have always been cheap to create. But, in the world of Web3 and an attention economy, these groups aren’t just cheap to create, they also provide means for…
How Can Groups Avoid Social Dilemmas? Cooperation
According to Bertrand de Jouvenel, “The essential freedom is the freedom to create a gathering, to generate a group, and thereby introduce in society a new power, a source of movement and…
What Is The Best Group Size?
It makes sense that the family would be the foundation of the group, as interdependence defines both words “family” and “group”. However, this does beg the question – is there a perfect size to…
What Is The Foundation Of The Group? The Family
Interdependence is core in the creation of groups, but from where do groups originate? What are the earliest groups? This would be the earliest form of social interdependence, right? Afterall, cities didn’t…