FUNDAMENTALS OF GROUPS
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Content Summary: Fundamentals of Groups
Chris Webb
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Liberty University
PSYC 512: Social Psychology
Dr. Tracy Gomez
April 23, 2023
FUNDAMENTALS OF GROUPS
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Introduction
The process of how an individual interacts with a group has been a topic that has attracted
research within social psychology. In chapter 7 of Kassin et al. (2021), they discuss how social
influences affect an individual automatically. They continued the conversation about groups in
Chapter 8, which discussed group processes. A research study by Hawley et al. (2014) sought to
determine how the black sheep effect affected the relationship between college athletes and non-
athletes. Two hundred seventy-four participants were given a unique combination of 4
experimental scenarios. The participants were broken down into 174 non-athletes and 71
athletes. Rees and Wallace (2014) took a deeper look at the topic of conformity when they
researched how a sober individual is influenced when surrounded by high levels of alcohol. The
study's sample size consisted of 13,451 students between 7th and 12th grade.
Summary Points
