Leading groups and teams isn’t easy. No matter how many leadership skills you might have, you can make mistakes if you overlook some essential elements. For this reason, today we’ll look at five tips that’ll help you lead groups and…
Why is there so much violence in soccer, specifically among fans? We see many news stories about violent clashes between rival fans. The last violent occurrence happened in the Copa Libertadores finals, during a game between the Argentine teams River Plate…
Is it possible to be rational after a conflict? After a conflict, thinking rationally and cooperating with the other person seems difficult, even if it’s for your own good. It’s even less common in a group setting. If your group has…
Not agreeing with others or thinking differently stresses us out due to the fact that we’re social beings who feel comfortable when we belong to a group. That’s why voicing our opinion can sometimes be scary. We don’t want to be rejected, offend…
As social psychology tells us, people create categories and divide other people according to these categories. In other words, we create groups according to nationality, ethnicity, religion, gender, and preference, among others. This implies that some people will be in our…
We understand radicalization as a social and psychological process that creates a growing commitment to an extremist political or religious ideology. In other words, to radicalize means to adopt political or religious beliefs that most people don’t share. How does…
There’s a lot of talk about higher visibility for women these days. Now more and more people are talking about trans visibility, the multicultural societies we live in, and a world where concepts of race and gender start to blur…
The Robber’s Cave experiment is one of the most classic in social psychology. It was carried out in 1945 by Muzafer Sherif and Carolyn Sherif, University of Oklahoma (USA) professors. They wanted to identify keys that would allow us to better…
Norms are ideas. They’re ideas that live in our minds and tell us what we’re supposed to do. They can also express what we’re expected to do, and in general, they’re shared. All groups have norms and they’re not harmless. They can…
Ever year, more businesses are encouraging their employees to work as a team. Some tasks and projects that are very hard to move forward with if they aren’t done by multiple people. But the truth is that working as a team can also…
If you observe different social groups, they all have their own group norms. It doesn’t matter if they are formal or informal groups. These norms are part of our social life, and we accept the vast majority of them as fair…
Idleness is one of the evils of our time. Laziness, a lack of desire to work, too much available time… Something strange often happens when we work in a group – the whole is less than the sum of the parts. What…
Social identity is the degree to which we identify with a certain group. It is the measure of how important a group is to us. The more we identify with the group, the more this group will define our personality. The…
