This best-seller is known in the field for being the most comprehensive treatment of groups available. This revision has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest research as well as the latest applications to organizational, industrial, educational, judiciary, athletic, and interpersonal settings. Writing in a friendly style, Forsyth builds each chapter around a separate, real-life case example and integrates various perspectives from disciplines such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, education, and political science to achieve a comprehensive analysis of group behavior. The concepts, tightly woven with pedagogy, teach the students about group dynamics rather than simply exposing them to basic principles and research findings.
Don, a social psychologist, studies and writes about ethics, groups, and leadership. His recent research focuses on individual, group and cultural differences in degree of idealism and relativism. An authority on group dynamics -- whose text Group Dynamics is in its fifth edition -- he studies groups' reactions to success and failure and the interpersonal functions of groups, including small group decision making. He is currently on the faculty of the Jepson School faculty in 2005,and he served on the faculty of Virginia Commonwealth University as a Professor in the Department of Psychology with a joint appointment in sociology. At Richmond he holds the Leo K. and Gayle Thorsness Chair of Ethical Leadership. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Florida, and a BA degree from Florida State University.
