PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gustave Le Bon, Kurt Lewin, Emotional Contagion

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerald Goldberg, Jenkin Ngo, Yin Mok

Document Summary

Group dynamics - the influential action, processes that occur within and between groups. Group dynamics - the field of inquiry dedicated to advancing knowledge about the nature of groups. Norman triplet - the field of studying group dynamics started with triplet in the late 1800s. He was one of the first to collect data on group dynamics, even thought the field has been talked about forever. The world wars and industrialization had a big influence on the field of group dynamics. People started to look at how the researching of groups can actually influence individuals and group performance. This included the idea of how technology and groups can influence performance, even in the military. The field really began to start in the late 1940s and early. It is often in activities that people find simple, that their performance actually, improves within groups (brushing teeth in the morning when in a rush because someone is waiting).