According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary online, "Group dynamics is the interacting forces within a small human group." (www.merriam-webster.com, 2000) It includes the sociological study of these forces. The term was first introduced in the U.S. by the German-American psychologist Kurt Lewin, who established the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1945. One of his findings was that group behavior affects many aspects of life. Group dynamics is concerned with …showed first 75 words of 1162 total…

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