This best-seller is known in the field for being the most comprehensive treatment of groups available.This revision has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest research as well as the latest applications to organizational,industrial,educational,judiciary,athletic,and interpersonal settings.Writing in a friendly style,Forsyth builds each chapter around a separate,real-life case example and integrates various perspectives from disciplines such as psychology,sociology,anthropology,education,and political science to achieve a comprehensive analysis of group behavior.The concepts,tightly woven with pedagogy,teach the students about group dynamics rather than simply exposing them to basic principles and research findings.

1 THE SCIENCE OF

 GROUP DYNAMICS

2 STUDYING GROUPS

3 THE INDIVIDUAL AND

 THE GROUP

 C.P.Ellis: From Klan Member

 to Enlightened Humanitarian

4 JOINING AND

  LEAVING GROUPS

 The Impressionists: The Group

 that Redefined Beauty

5 STRUCTURE

 Andes Survivors: One Group's

 Triumph over Extraordinary

 Adversity

6 COHESION AND

 DEVELOPMENT

 Disney Studios: The Team

 that Walt Built

7 INFLUENCE

 The Corona Trial Jury:

 The Group as Arbiter of Justice

8 POWER

 The People's Temple:

 The Metamorphic Effects

 of Power

9 CONFLICT

 Jobs versus Sculley:

 When Group

 Members Turn Against

 Each Other

10 PERFORMANCE

 The Relay Test Room:

 Enhancing Productivity

 Through Teamwork

11 DECISION MAKING

 Kennedy's Advisory Committee:

 Collective Errors and Disastrous

 Decisions

12 LEADERSHIP

 Grace Pastiak of Tellabs,Inc.:

 Transforming People and

 Groups Through Leadership

13 INTERGROUP RELATIONS

 The Rattlers and the Eagles:

 Group Against Group

14 THE GROUP ENVIRONMENT

 Sealab: Living and Working

 in an Extraordinary

 Group Environment

15 CROWDS AND COLLECTIVE

 BEHAVIOR

 The Who Concert Stampede:

 A Crowd Gone Mad?

16 GROUPS AND CHANGE

 The Therapy Group: Groups

 as Interpersonal Resources