In a world where collaboration is becoming essential and group diversity is increasing, it is all the more necessary to understand the mechanisms that make a group functional, but also evolutionary.
Each person experiences their identity at the intersection of two fundamental needs: the desire to be themselves and the desire to belong. Between these two orientations – individual and collective – all social experiences are built: family relationships, professional teams, learning groups, communities, virtual environments and informal networks that shape contemporary life.
This book explores the person from both perspectives, addressing the psychological processes that arise when people work, learn, create or develop together, being structured in two parts.
The first part describes the person as an individual and how self-image, self-esteem, personality, emotional intelligence and communication style are influenced by various psychosocial factors and influence social interactions.
In the second part of the book, the focus shifts from the person to the group, describing group typologies, theories, dimensions, functions, group psychosocial structures, as well as the main characteristics underlying cohesion, conformity, conflict and negotiation, leadership dynamics, performance and group animation. At the same time, modern approaches to the dynamics of group functioning in the digital age are also included, with the group being viewed as existing in continuous transformation.
The book combines theoretical and applied elements, offering diagnostic tools for understanding the person within the group, in educational, organizational or family contexts.
This book is primarily addressed to psychology students, but also to people who work with groups – teachers, psychologists, trainers, managers, etc., as well as to all those who want to better understand human interaction and the group as not only a social reality, but a space of learning, transformation and shared responsibility.
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