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SESP
1998 Conference
Discussion Area
Group
Dynamics: The Journal
Teaching
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100 Years of Group Research
In July of 1898, one century ago, Norman Triplett published his precedent-setting study of individual performance in a coaction setting in the American Journal of Psychology. Triplett's work, arguably the first experimental laboratory study of groups ever conducted, stimulated a century of work on group processes and performance. (Click here for more information on Triplett's study).
The 6th Annual Conference on Small Groups was held on October 22st in Lexington,
Kentucky in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology,
celebrates this century of research on group processes with talks that dealt with historical analyses of
trends in the field and prognostications for future directions. Sessions were open to both SESP and non-SESP members.
- Photo gallery of the sessions
- Issue: Where will the next preconference be held? The group discussed the possibility of holding the preconference before another conference, such as SPSP. The advantages and disadvantages are many, requiring some open discussion. Please offer your opinions, and/or review other individual's comments, on the discussion board (
Click here to go to the Discussion Area
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Program Speakers
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Eric Sundstrom, University of Tennessee
Work Groups: From the Hawthorne Studies to Teams of the '90s.
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Jack Aiello, Rutgers
University
Social Facilitation: From Coaction to Electronic Performance Monitoring
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Sam Gaertner, University of Delaware
Reducing Intergroup Bias: From Superordinate Goals to Common Ingroup
Identity.
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Bill Crano, University of Arizona
Social Influence: Asch to Moscovici to Integrative Cognitive Models
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Marty Chemers, University of California
at Santa Cruz
Leadership: From Contingency Theories to a Functional View
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Ken Dion, University of Toronto
Cohesion: From a "field of forces" to a multidimensional construct
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Kay Deaux, City University of New York
The Individual in the Group: From James' Social Self to Social Identity
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