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Tuckman's stages of group development
model of group development first proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965
Team effectiveness
a team's ability to accomplish their goals or objectives
charrette
thumb | right | Arrival of a cart in the courtyard of the Beaux-Arts, Gazette-St-Germain-des-Prés, Sept. 1965 A charrette (American pronunciation: ; ), often Anglicized to charette or charet and sometimes called a design charrette, is an intense period of design or planning activity.
team management
ability of an individual or an organization to administer and coordinate a group of individuals to perform a task
Minimal group paradigm
methodology employed in social psychology
contact hypothesis
psychological hypothesis about intergroup contact
The Tyranny of Structurelessness
1972 essay by Jo Freeman
transactive memory
psychological hypothesis
social contagion
behavior, emotions, or conditions spreading spontaneously through a group or network
social gadfly
person who interferes with the status quo of a society or community
somebody else's problem
dismissive figure of speech
Facilitation
Facilitation may refer to:
system justification theory
theory within social psychology that people have several underlying needs that can be satisfied by the defense and justification of the status quo
Here Comes Everybody
2008 non-fiction work by Clay Shirky
social trap
a situation in which a group of people act to obtain short-term individual gains, which in the long run leads to a loss for the group as a whole
social tipping point
point in time when a group rapidly and dramatically changes its behaviour
gang stalking
persecutory belief system
large-group awareness training
behavior modification training carried out in large groups
momentum investing
System of trading stocks based on recent performance
psychological safety
a shared belief that a team is safe for interpersonal risk taking
perspective-taking
Perspective-taking is the act of perceiving a situation or understanding a concept from an alternative point of view, such as that of another individual.
design by committee
disparaging term for a project
group action
in sociology, a situation in which a number of agents take action simultaneously in order to achieve a common goal
collective action problem
situation in which all individuals would be better off cooperating but fail to do so because of conflicting interests between individuals that discourage joint action
communication in small groups
conversations of a few people
Fission-fusion society
Social organization
group development
type of development
food fight
chaotic collective behavior involving throwing food at each other
online deliberation
type of deliberation
The Kindness Rock Project
trend where people paint rocks and leave them in public spaces for people to take
meta learning
Meta-learning is a branch of metacognition concerned with learning about one's own learning and learning processes.
hysterical contagion
effect in which a group exhibits physical symptoms due to a psychological cause
intercultural dialogue
process that comprises an open and respectful exchange or interaction between individuals, groups and organizations with different cultural backgrounds or world views