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group psychology

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group psychology

Area of social psychology dealing with the formation and cohesion of groups, competition and conflict among group members and between groups, the influence of the group on the individual and vice versa, communication within the group and between groups, and many other aspects of social interaction.


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She fixes on group psychology, especially fear: how particular fears--of disorderly society, of strangers, of witches, of papists, of bastardy, of foreigners--crystallized the image of the "usual suspects" and conjured in peoples' minds those horrible forms that shook them to the very core.
Lewis Yablonsky, a sociologist specializing in group psychology at California State University, Northridge, who served in World War II, said the nation has never undergone such emotional stress than after Sept.
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