GROUP DYNAMICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does group dynamics mean? 

• GROUP DYNAMICS (noun)
  The noun GROUP DYNAMICS has 1 sense:

1. the branch of social psychology that studies the psychodynamics of interaction in social groups

  Familiarity information: GROUP DYNAMICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROUP DYNAMICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of social psychology that studies the psychodynamics of interaction in social groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("group dynamics" is a kind of...):

psychodynamics (the branch of social psychology that deals with the processes and emotions that determine psychology and motivation)

 Context examples 

Comprises a set of group dynamics whereby a group in which one feels comfortable may override personal habits, individual moral inhibitions or idiosyncratic desires to impose a group norm of attitudes and/or behaviors.

(Peer Pressure, NCI Thesaurus)