First Year Studies - The Realities of Groups

1- Stangor, C. (2003). Defining the social group. In C. Stangor, Social Groups in Action and Interaction, New York, NY: Taylor & Francis Books, Inc., pp. 1- 31.

Film: Get on the Bus

Essay: What’s a group, an analysis of Get on the Bus (3 pages)

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Week-3 (09-20): The group and social life

Brown, R., Chap. 1

1- Buys, C. J. (1978), Humans would do better without groups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 4, 123-125.

2- Hornsey, M.J. & Jetten, J. (2004). The Individual Within the Group: Balancing the Need to Belong With the Need to Be Different, Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8(3), 248-264.

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Week-4 (09-27): The study of group in social psychology

Brown, R., Chap. 1

Moreland, R.L., Hogg, M.A., & Hains, S.C. (1994). Back to the future: Social psychological research on groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 30, 527-555.

Sanna, L.J. & Parks, C.D. (1997). Group research trends in social and organizational psychology: Whatever happened to intragroup research? Psychological Science, 8(4), 261-267.

Steiner, I. (1974), Whatever Happened to The Group in Social Psychology? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 10, 94-108.

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Week-5 (10-04): The crowd as a group

Le Bon, G. (1982). The Crowd, a Study of the Popular Mind. Atlanta: Cherokee Publishing Company.

1- Stott, C. & Reicher, S. (1998). Crowd action as intergroup process: Introducing the police perspective. European Journal of Social Psychology, 28(4), 509-529.

Essay: Le Bon and modern conceptions of crowds in the United States (7 pages)

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Week-6 (10-11): Becoming a member of a group

Brown, R., Chap. 2

1- Aronson, E. & Miles, J. (1959), The Effect of Severity of Initiation on Liking for a Group. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 59, 177-181.

2- Moreland, R., L. (1985). Social categorization and the assimilation of “new” group members. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology. 48(5), 1173-1190.

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Week-7 (10- 18): Interdependence and group process

Brown, R., Chap. 2

1- Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (2005). Internet Minimal Group Paradigm CyberPsychology & Behavior, 8(2), 140-142

2- Dashiell, J. F. (1930). An experimental analysis of some group effects. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 25, 190-199.

Group Exercise: Social Interdependence and Formation of Goals

Film: Life Boat

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Week-8:

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Week-9: Group cohesion

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Week-10: Acquisition and development of group norms

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Week-11: Role differentiation

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Week-12:

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Week-13: Status differentiation

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Week-14: Leaders and leadership

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Week-15

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