Experimental inquiry into the psychodynamics of the relationship between the group's dominant basic assumption type and scapegoating phenomenon

Psychologia

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 272-284

  Hafsi, Mohamed ^a  

^a NARA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basic assumptions; Group dynamics; Valency; Wilfred Bion; Work group

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032286596     PISSN: 00332852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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